Word: european
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...European governments, Professor Willcox said, have long realized the importance of vital statistics, which the United States did not seriously consider until the last census. On the records then obtained, however incomplete, we may base a comparison of the populations of Europe and the United States. Europe, which comprises only one-fifteenth of the total land area of the world, supports one-fourth of its population. At present the rate of increase of population in the United States is nearly twice as large as that of Europe, but the two are gradually approximating. He then went on to show that...
...overwhelmed and conquered many times by foreign nations. It is strange, indeed, that placed in the position of servitude to which she has been subjected, Armenia has ever been able to give to the world what she has given,--a literature which can hardly be rivalled by any other European country, and a church history which is filled with accounts of Christian martyrdom...
Bishop Vincent took a degree of A.B. at Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio, in 1875, and in 1896 received an S.T.D. from Harvard. After having pastorates in several cities, he was appointed resident European Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900. He is the author of "Studies in Young Life." and a number of books...
...pointed out in his previous lecture the conflict between European and Asiatic customs and tendencies was largely responsible for breaking up the unity of the Mediterranean empire. A fanatical crisis in Bagdad at the end of the eighth century, M. Millet said, and a thorough reform of the Christian church in the eleventh century, coupled with the desire to restore the old Roman empire, was directly responsible for the Crusades. These served to subdue the Mohammedans--the "yellow peril" of the Middle Ages. With the decline of the Crusading spirit Europe came into contact with the luxury of the East...
...where we are ever in the presence of original and refractory civilizations which cannot and will not be modified. This problem, said M. Millet, brings us back to the history of the Mediterranean when Egypt and Assyria 2500 years ago found themselves in the presence of the forming European societies. Finally M. Millet discussed the more important races of this region--the Phcenicians, which brought about an evocation of the great Carthage, and the Greeks who were responsible for the rapid diffusion of Hellenic culture...