Word: akin
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...true, Professor Shaler acknowledges, that this intellectual quality akin to their own which men believe they see through the harmony of natural laws is but an imagination and an unreal theory. Personally, Professor Shaler believes it is not unreal, but is a scientific fact. By a series of illustrations he strives to prove that the fundamental processes of nature are so closly akin to the workings of the minds of men that we cannot escape the belief that some infinite and unmortal intelligence is back of all natural phenomena...
...envy or hatred; and our constant effort should be imitation of the Revered Being. In the low forms of religion, the fear is abject, hopeless; and it is only with the help of Christian love that we can avoid this and realize that we are in a measure akin to God, however many feelings we may have...
...ideal of dreams, introduced by Rousseau and Chateaubriand and defined by Verlaine. The French symbolists or "decadents" belong to this latter class. They employ a very vague form of symbolism, endeavoring to make their verse musical, and paying little need to coherence. In this respect they are nearly akin to Wagner, the great symbolistic composer. The symbolists have trespassed against all rules of poetry, and for this reason are not recognized as good authors by the leading critics of the day. M. de Regnier is the only "decadent" who has really received recognition, and he has had an honor which...