Word: commune
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hezekiah Butterworth has a story entitled "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving" and the last piece of writing prepared by James Russell Lowell for publication is published. It is an uncompleted essay on Francis Parkman. Archibald Forbes contributes his second article on "What I Saw of the Paris Commune." There is an interesting study of "Road-Coaching up to Date" with pictures illustrating the trip from Paris to Trouville...
Archibald Forbes has an interesting article in the beginning of the number on 'What I Saw of the Paris Commune,' illustrated chiefly by that wonderful artist, Vierge. Then, of course there are lots of Columbus and the Worlds Fair, and so forth, all ending with some brilliant little 'Reflections' by Alice W. Rollins...
...article which occupies the seat of honor in the November Monthly (the prose of which is unusually good) is by Paul R. Frothingham on "The Place of Mysticism in Modern Life." Its author considers Mysticism as that philosophy which enables man to seek through introspection to commune with the Eternal Spirit and receive divine illumination. After giving a short account of what the Mysticism has accomplished in past ages, he explains very lucidly the causes which have lessened its power at the present day and makes an earnest plea for this philosophy of the inner, the spirit world...
...actual idea which Hegel chose to bury in a mass of barbaric words. Each one of us, Hegel said, is what some other moment of his life finds him reflectively to be. All consciousness is merely an appeal to other consciousness, to a past self. The more we commune with others, the richer this past consciousness becomes. An attempt to attain holiness through separation from the world is therefore useless. True, spiritual life lies rather in struggling with sin and overcoming...
Professor Cohn gave in French 4 yesterday instead of the regular lecture an intersting account of the reign of the Commune in Paris...