Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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D UKE CHAPEL, COMMANDING THE CENTERMOST SjTE ON THE CAMPUS, lH THE SPIRITUAL CEN- TER OF THE UNIVERSITY. ALL STUDENTS FlNpATS STEPS A MEETING PLACE BETWEEN CLASSES.

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IDEA OF A UNiVERSlW TfUT ONLY IS TRUE ENLARGEMENT OF THE MIND WHICU IS THE POII ' ER OF VIEWING MANY THINGS AT ONCE AS A WHOLE, REFERRING THEM SEfERALLY TO THEIR TRUE PLACE IN THE UNIVERSAL SYSTEM, OF UNDERSTANDING THEIR RESPECTIVE VALUES, AND DETERMINING THEIR MUTUAL DEPENDENCE. — John Henry Cardinal Nezvman. £)A ' 1NG even a portion of this illuminative reason and true philosophy is the highest state to which nature can aspire, in the way of intellect; it puts the mind above the influence of chance and necessity, above anxiety, suspense, unsettlement, and superstition, which is the lot of the many. Men, whose minds are possessed with some one object, take exaggerated views of its importance, are feverish in the pursuit of it, make it the measure of things which are utterly foreign to it, and are startled and despond if it happens to fail them. They are ever in alarm or in trans- port. Those on the other hand who have no object or principle whatever to hold by, lose their way, every step they take. They are thrown out, and do not know what to think or say, at every fresh juncture; they have no view of persons, or occurrences, or facts, which come suddenly upon them, and they hang upon the opinion of others, for want of internal resources. But the intellect, which has been disciplined to the perfec- tion of its powers, which knows, and thinks while it knows, which has learned to leaven the dense mass of facts and events with the elastic force of reason, such an intellect cannot be partial, cannot be exclusive, cannot be impetuous, cannot be at a loss, can- not but be patient, collected, and majestically calm, because it discerns the end in every beginning, the origin in every end, the law in every interruption, the limit in each delay; because it ever knows where it stands, and how its path lies from one point to another. 43C448

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dM£S BUCHANAN DUKE, IN SILENT BRONZE, II ' ATCIIES EROM IllS RIGHTEUL PLACE IN THE CENTER OF THE WEST CAMPUS QUADRANGLE, THE I ' MI ' ERSITY lllIICH HIS GREAT GENEROSITY CREATED. 43C448