Word: creation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Bergson concluded modestly in stating that whereas it remains to religion to speak authoritatively on the basis of a revelation of the origin and end of man, the philosophy of change conceiving life as a movement, a perpetual creation, evidently tends to reassure man as to his immortality...
...would be strange, indeed, if Mr. Wilson's conception of the relative powers of the three orders in the government had remained unchanged during the decades which have witnessed the extension of the railway and the telegraph, the virtual creation of the telephone and the birth of wireless telegraphy, with the appearance of the trusts, the rise of the Socialist party, and the advent of a radicalism such as had not been dreamed of in 1884. In this interval a stupendous economic and political transformation has taken place. Mr. Wilson declares that "Congress is predominant over its so-called...
...contentment comes at last. Mr. Adams hymns with real dignity and genuine feeling the heroes of the Titanic; Mr. Wright pictures the evening with the simplicity of a master; and Mr. Thayer's snowflakes dance with lightness akin to the dancing of Herrick's creation. And with the thought of him comes a vision of Dean Prior, remote in lovely South Devon, its ancient church, the vied tower, the churchyard, and the vicarage garden...
Discussion at the Forum last night concerning the uses of the Union brought forth many suggestions of value in the creation of greater enthusiasm amongst the Union's present membership. Abundant testimony of the Union's financial success and even of the satisfactory condition of its membership was given. The making of the Union the moving spirit in the creation of University solidarity and esprit de corps, however, appeared to be wherein it failed...
...emphasize) such subjects as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the proposed Judicial Arbitration Court, Good Offices, Mediation and Commissions of Inquiry, as treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes" adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences, and in the "Draft Convention Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court" agreed to by the second Hague Conference...