...or otherwise express concurrence. But such an argument is akin to that of the Middle Ages concerning the number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle. One or two hymns, such as "Crossing the bar" and "Alone Thou trodd'st the winepress," are welcome additions,...

...the terminology of the schools, without disclosing that the schoolmen thought of other matters beside the number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle. Such disclosures are as dangerous as Mr. Southey's discovery, that there was an element of good in...

...comprehensible, as those " seraphic" and " angelical" doctors who endeavoured to reason out the exact number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle. It is plainly not the particular conclusion at which we may arrive, which constitutes the utility of...

...developed itself in barren speculations and childish tricks. The same spirit which set schoolmen battling as to the number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle, prompted the most stupendously simple of frauds. One old necromancer, who believed he had sold his...

...sunbeams out of cucumbers and calcine ice into gunpowder, or of the metaphysicians who demonstrated that the number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle was neither more nor less than ten thousand, and that any one who sought to diminish this number even...

...scarce half a dozen drugs concerning whose nature and action we are tolerably agreed. The most favourite and firmly-established beliefs of our fathers have...medicine is limited to fields which are as common to the homoBopaths as they are to us ; and it is clear, therefore, that in this stupid schism we are only...

...discussions of modern problems in politics, economics and kindred subjects. We no longer seek to discover the number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle, but rather the proper disposition of the Chinese Empire. Not only is the present intercollegiate debate...

...think well and wisely. Yet the word "scholastic" calls up in the minds of many only the odd problem of the number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle without jostling. Students of history are apt to be misled by names, epigrams, or ' ' vignettes in...

...and given to legal scholasticism which sometimes makes one think of mediaeval discussions regarding the number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle. 10 Corrupt American courts have rarely been. They have had a one-sided legal training, and in this...

...American Catholics were heretical persons, of no metaphysical knowledge ; they could not count accurately the number of angels who could dance on the point of a needle ! He arrogantly upheld the German idea. English-speaking priests were neither willing nor capable....