Word: aryan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...programme for the extension courses at Colby University, Waterville, Me., for this year has been prepared. President Butler will deliver six lectures on English literature and six on some studies in American literature. Professor Pepper gives five lectures on Biblical literature; Professor Taylor, five on the Aryan and Semitic languages; Professor L. E. Warren, five to ten on the history of Italian painting, two on the seven great styles of architecture, and three on architecture and sculpture; Professor W. A. Warren, one on the sun, two on the moon and three on the planets; Professor W. S. Bayley...
Science is primarily a characteristic of the Aryan race. The earliest idea was that all things were ordained by a power greater than man. Invariably there is the idea of a god or a number of gods resembling mankind in form. The first great step in the advance of science was the dehumanizing of the causes which brought about all natural phenomena. This was due to Plato who founded that school of philosophers known as the Sceptics. Aristotle carried Plato's idea further. He conceived that the production of everything was due to antecedent causes. Thus science departed from...
Traces of the cultus are distinctly seen in the Semitic races and many evidences of it exist in the Bible. In the Aryan races, too, the cultus existed along with the most exalted developments of philosophical thought...
...Joseph H. Allen, of Cambridge, has lately published a volume entitled "Aryan Sun Myths-The Origins of Religion." A copy has just been placed on the new book shelves in the reading room of the library...