Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...facts in which though there may be a general outward similarity in the events, there is no inward likeness in the causes by which the events were brought about, and the circumstances which modified them. In biography it is this action and reaction of the man upon the element in which he works, and of that element upon him, which tests and gauges the quality and amount of his character, the only thing of permanent value in him. Character is not merely individuality, but individuality acting with force and steadiness in a given direction. Perhaps among all literary men Dante...
From the earliest days of Massachusetts the ministers have been recognized as representing the chief element of learning, and their opinions have always been much valued on all matters. Even the legislature of the state has listened regularly once a year, until a few years ago, to a sermon by some eminent clergyman, usually discussing most frankly some important political question. From 1634 to 1884 a sermon was preached every year before the General Court of Massachusetts, and usually this sermon was printed and widely scattered over the state. In 1884 the law providing for this annual sermon was repealed...
...representative of classic art. This does not mean that his subjects or even his conceptions were Greek, although some of them were, but that his method was classic. Everything in his work blends with its surroundings. He was a harmonist, a unity of many things. He established no special element in the Renaissance but he put together the best of everything in an inimitable way. His one weakness was in brush work, but this fault was universal in all artists of the period...
...vanity and vexation of spirit." These two writers, he said, have views so opposed to one another that evidently one of them must have been very much in the wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain standpoints there seems to be an element of truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price we pay for it? The old preacher had tried all the pleasures that this world can offer or at least...
...Does Pessimism, as a doctrine, express any truth of sufficient importance to make this doctrine a valuable element in modern thought...