Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...absence of definite knowledge is due to the vague nature of the reform. It was neither a doctrine nor a tangible belief, but rather an impulse of self-emancipation, hampered to some extent by the conservatism of the day. Coming as a reaction from the old Puritan theology, it excited a storm of abuse and persecution as furious as it was undeserved. Theodore Parker, the leader of the party, held views on the interpretation of the Scriptures which would today be considered the reverse of radical; and yet these same views prevented his election to the Phi Beta Kappa...
...scholarship and sound thinking. Indirectly through his pupils, and directly through his writings, he did much to educate public opinion; and he would have done more, had not his desire to enlarge his sphere of influence--for he was not without ambition--been held in check by the abiding belief that his paramount duty was to the institution into whose service he had entered...
...addition to these works, Villiers de I' Isle Adam also wrote "Eve Future," which is dedicated to dreamers as well as to scoffers. M. de Regnier discussed this work fully and also spoke of the belief of its author in the reality of the idea. For most of his life Villiers was in great poverty, and was almost unknown. Indifferent to his sufferings, however, he was able to rise above the miseries of his life, and proudly to live in the magical illusion of his dream...
...poetry rests on one indispensable principle--the search for duty. There is poetry in everything, and it is the poet's part to find it and draw it out. One of the striking features of romanticism is the principle of "belief in inspiration...