The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty

In college, almost everyone has a personal computer. More and more people are using Macs - it seems that 10% of the class of 2007 uses Macs, whereas it appears that roughly half of freshman (class of 2010) are using Macs. I’ve used PCs, Macs, and lately a lot of Linux. I’ve even written my [...]

Passages like “when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth” (16) and “later [Clarissa] wasn’t so positive perhaps; she thought there were no Gods; no one [...]

John Hick responds to the problem of evil by offering an interpretation of God’s plan for humanity in which natural evils are person-building obstacles, and moral evils are moralizing vicissitudes, in a developmental process aimed at moral perfection. Hick argues that only by arriving at a state of moral perfection from an initial state of [...]

I was struck by the compromises of civil and political rights for economic promise that Booker T. Washington was willing to make on behalf of a struggling race. DuBois describes Washington’s agenda as “a gospel of Work and Money to such extent as to completely overshadow the higher aims of life,” (30) and “the sudden [...]