Word: domain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...grim despair and situations full of horror; the tone is different from Poe's, but a result like his is gained. In "Will Ellis" a situation is described in which a tragedy is inevitable--the passionate protest of an ignorant mountaineer against the invasion of his domain by a railway; the tragedy comes quite naturally. "A romance in red" is an anecdote, full of quiet humor, with an undercurrent of sadness. All three of these stories have the quality of realness--an encouraging fact. The poetical pieces have refinement of feeling, but none of them will take strong hold...
...more interested in the sweep and variety, even in the exceptions and caprice, than in the rigid formulation of life. Mr. Berenson belongs to the former class, and it is wonderful that a mind so acutely intellectual as his should choose for its special province the Fine Arts--the domain, that is, where Beauty and not Knowledge is sovereign. But although his forte is intellectual, Mr. Berenson succeeds in interpreting much of the sensuous charm of painting...
...modern life is its fragmentary character. To secure a wholeness of life is to satisfy the six great human wants mentioned last time: wealth, health, sociability, taste, knowledge, and righteousness. The best way to view how the state synthesizes these is to observe how their opposites flourish within its domain...
...principle of co-operative production has in recent years obtained recognition in the domain of historical writing alike in Europe and in America. So enormous has become the store of materials now available to the historian and so insistent the demand that no important part of this shall be disregarded, that an individual writer who nowadays aspires to deal in authoritative fashion with all the phases and periods of the nation's history may indeed be accounted unduly ambitious. The historical student of our day and generation may well find in the mastery of a single period or a single...
...sign of health and not of disease, and the physician who detects the germs of that disease which is sapping public confidence and poisoning the industrial and political body, is a benefactor of his country and prophet of his day and his generation. When Jenner introduced vaccination into the domain of curative and preventive medicine, the reactionaries pronounced him as an enemy of mankind, but the next generation held him up as one of the greatest benefactors of the human race and erected statues to his skill, his service and his memory...