Word: erasmus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...collection upon the sixteenth century, however, it is the Reformation and its forerunners to which more space is devoted. The contemporary editions of Erasmus, of the tracts poured forth in the controversy between Reuchlin and the Obscurantists, of the poems and orations and satires of Ulrich von Hutten, few are wanting. The mystical teachers, too, of the pre-Reformation period - Savonarola in Italy, Tauler and Geiler of Kaisersburg in Germany - are well represented by original impressions...
Skin and mucous membrane are of very similar construction, and a very close sympathy exists between them; thus a disease of the mucous membrane may spread to the skin, and vice versa. The outer layer of the epidermis is being continually cast off. The temperature of health, says Sir Erasmus Wilson, is a genial summer over the whole surface, and when that exists the system cannot be otherwise than well. This agreeable warmth of the skin must be maintained by food, by clothing, by exercise, and by washing. The material of which the clothing is made has much...
...Erasmus Wilson thinks the hairs act partly as excretory organs, separating from the system a quantity of carbon and hydrogen, which enter into their composition. The instrument used in testing the sensibility of the skin is called an Aesthesiometer. The degree of sensibility is measured by the distance between the points at which they can be recognized as two. The following, in millimeters, are the three shortest distances at which the two points can be distinguished: Tip of tongue, 1.1; third phalanx of finger, palmar surface, 2.3; red part of lips...
...historical development of the last three centuries, he says, may be defined as a slow but steady progress toward the formation of a distinct modern culture, separating itself gradually from the ancient civilization out of which it grew. To day this modern society has reached its maturity. To Erasmus the ancients were models of living; even Goethe considered the Greeks as unattainable ideals of beauty and greatness. For us they are the objects of research and criticism. It would be absurd to educate our boys as if they belonged to the age of the humanists. What we want above...