The times of old, and their happy memories, a discourse, in two parts preached in St. Andrew's church, Toronto, on the occasion of the commemorative services connected with the Tricentenary of the Scottish Reformation.
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Abstract
Owing to an appointment previously given him by the Presbytery of Toronto, of which he is a member, to preach in a distant part of the country on the 16th December, the Author was prevented by the necessary absence from his own pulpit, from complying with the Synod's instructions on the day named in the above extract.The first Sabbath thereafter-the 23rd December, was therefore substituted by him as a fit occasion on which to direct the minds of his People to the subject of the Scottish Reformation.The following Discourse, preached on the morning and continued in the evening of that day, is now printed at the request of many who heard it.Though written without any view to greater publicity than that implied in its being preached to his own Congregation, the Author does not feel at liberty to withhold it from publication, considering the urgent nature of the request made to him in the name of so many respected Friends to allow it to be printed.He now commits it to the press as a Memorial of the Religious Service in which, along with his People, he was privileged to engage in commemoration of the Tricentenary of the great Event which was the crowning glory of the Agethat witnessed it and experienced its immediate benefits, and from which, even in the present day, there may be drawn wise and salutary lessons for our own admonition and guidance.DISCOURSE.PSALM XLIV. 1. w We have heard with our ears, God, our fathers have told us what work thou didst in their day, in the times of old."Novelty and change are more attractive to some minds than to others.There are individuals to be met with, whose estimate of things is largely influenc- ed by a regard to their antiquity -whose interest in objects and events appears to be excited, and their commendation bestowed thereon, almost in direct proportion to their own distance from them.With a profound veneration for what is old, and because it is so, they talk of the degeneracy of the present age, and moralize on the causes why u the former days were better than these."It is distarjce that, to a
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".