Word: creation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difference in the social conditions of the people. In England, Cabinet government was evolved in the struggle between the King and the people. The people had to have centralized leadership to compete with the centralized power of the King. It was a work of reform rather than of creation. In America we have had no struggle against ruler or class. Our problem has been chiefly the up building of a nation, a task which demands slow and sure steps...
...this creation of a class spirit that the greatest good of the annual dinners would lie. The feeling of a common interest, and of a common loyalty and brotherhood, which they would bring about, would make college life fuller, more interesting and more beneficial for the individuals of the class, and would make the class as a body stronger and more successful...
...best preserved Doric temples-including the Parthenon and the so-called Theseum-edifices which exhibit the order in its perfection; and then raised the question as to the origin of the Doric temple. According to the traditional belief, the Doric temple in its finest forms was a spontaneous creation, springing complete and perfect from the brain of Greek architects, as Athena, with helmet and spear, darted into life from the head of Zeus. Numerous excavations conducted in recent years have demonstrated the incorrectness of this view. They have shown that the Roman architect Vitruvius was in the main right...
...Homer's description of the palaces of heroic times, and confirmed the truth of the comparison by certain conspicuous and convincing examples. This fact is of importance in determining the date of the Homeric poems. They belong to the same age with Tiryns and Mycenae, and are not the creation of a poet's fancy, but trustworthy descriptions of the life and art of the Heroic...
...there has been a widespread idea that there is a conflict between the truths of science and religion. By many people religion has been taken as a kind of sentiment rather than a rational belief. The first real difficulty in the way has been the Biblical account of the creation of the world in six days. In view of the gradual development of other planets, it seems hard to believe that the world could have reached so high a state of development in six days. But this account is not to be taken too literally; on the contrary...