Word: esotericism
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In respect to the folk-lore of the primitive peoples of America, much remains to be investigated. The Indians of North America comprise sixty different stocks, each having its peculiar language, as different from every other as English is from Chinese. And each of these races has its own stories...
It is beyond a question that one's intellectual dominion is greatly extended even by the mere ability to read other languages than his own. For it is precisely those works which are most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon...
There is undoubtedly a reaction setting in against the excessive fostering of athletics. President Eliot has sounded the esoteric note, and now Dr. Crosby has taken up the cry; and we may be assured that, coming from such a man, it is but the signal for an attack all along...
Far away in the desolate wilds of South America, where roams the disconsolate tapir, and the melancholy hyenas come trooping home at eventide; where the kangaroo leaps in demoniac exultation, and the boa-constrictor, after coiling himself tenderly but firmly around the waist of the intruder, gazes with embarrassing familiarity...
Mr. Dwight begins by remarking upon the American love for novelty; draws a striking and original comparison between ourselves and the ancient Athenians; touches slightly but exhaustively on the development of Christian civilization, and then in a light and easy transition passes to intercollegiate regattas and Saratoga. We deeply regret...