Identifier: memoriesofyaleli00dwig (find matches)
Title: Memories of Yale life and men, 1854-1899
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916
Subjects: Yale University
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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vailable.The institution had indeed come to a critical turning-point in its history, and its work must hereafter belongto the younger generation. Dr. Taylor and his three associates were remarkablemen. They were as remarkable in their differences fromone another as they were in their individual mentalgifts. Dr. Taylor himself was an original thinker ofa high order. He had a creative mind and was fittedto be the founder of a new system, whether of theologyor philosophy. His intellectual powers were self-impelling, rendering him ever alive for the investigationof truth, and ever ardent in the desire to lay hold u()onthe deepest and the highest things. He was possessedof that peculiar mental enthusiasm which, by reason ofits inspiring force within the man himself, imparts itselfas by a necessity to other men. He had a commandingpersonality as he sat in his professorial chair in hislecture-room—his head and face being indicative ofgreatness and his eyes suggesting to all who looked upon
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PROFESSOR NATHANIEL W. TAYLOR MEMORIES OF YALE LIFE AND MEN him clearness of insight and penetrating intelligence.With the characteristic decisiveness of men of his order,his confidence in the conclusions which he reached wasvery strong and his announcement of them was, in anequal degree, emphatic. He was dogmatic, not in a badsense, but in a good sense. He was ever ready to gothrough a process of reasoning or argumentation withthose who found objections to his views or were movedto oppose them. But he made it manifest, in everydiscussion, that in his own mind he had passed throughthe entire domain of the subject, and that the difficultieswhich might be troublesome to those who presentedthem had been already met and set aside in his personalthinking. Of the Pauline type in many respects, he hadmuch of the heroism of the Apostle; much of his large-mindedness; much of his true Christian freedom; andmuch of his readiness to meet any and every adversaryon the field of doctrine or of argum

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