Word: cult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...previous lecture, which dealt with the early history of the Mediterranean races and the Roman empire before its dissolution. M. Millet showed what an important role Christianity and Mohammedanism played in breaking up the unity of the old world. The philosophy of Christianity differed greatly from the Roman cult which demanded no personal reflection and did not address itself to the heart. The early Christians were to a great extent in the same position as the socialists and anarchists of the present day, who, on account of their unorthodox inspirations are rightly looked upon as revolutionary factors. As the church...
...already numerous body of "Harvard" stories has lately received an addition in "The Cult of the Purple Rose: a Phase of Harvard Life," by Shirley Everton Johnson '95. By the device of an imagined undergraduate society of pseudo-literary tastes the author is enabled to introduce several verses and tales, the relation of which to college surroundings is slight, and which are possessed of no striking merit. Of his own book he says in his preface: "No Harvard man will take this book seriously. It deals solely with the doings of a few extremists." The reader is likely to agree...
...Cult of the Purple Rose, by S. E. Johnson. Boston: Richard G. Badger: the Gorham Press...
...Hinduism reality, and of Hebraism, holiness. Every religion is the idealism of the thought of the nation that brought it forth. Therefore to understand the religion of a nation one must study that nation's characteristics. The Hebrews were originally a nomadic tribe and as such possessed a nomadic cult, which had much in common with the later monotheistic idea. Like all nations, the Hebrews had two sides to their national character. The world y ambition and soldiery qualities of the Maccabees and the like go side by side with and are constantly striving against the unworld-liness and angelic...
...conclusion, M. de Regnier said, "Villiers de I' Isle Adam has always strenuously defended the casuality of the ideal and the eternal cult of beauty...