“To see ourselves as others see us”

Abstract

To see Ourselves as Others see Us. ?In talking with one or two graduates and teachers of the Edinburgh University, I have learned of the existence there of an interesting regulation affecting the position of instructors, in the medical department at least, which obtains, so far as I know, scarcely anywhere else. It appears that, besides the regularly appointed corps of teachers, any person, after proving himself to be properly qualified before a certain examining-board, may open rooms and hold courses of lectures on any subject, attracting from the regular lecturers as vol. xxiii.?no. v.

Orthodox Christian rigorism: attempting to delineate a multifaceted phenomenon

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