Word: faith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...April number of the Atlantic Monthly appeared early this week. The stories continued from March are "Yone Santo," by E. H. House; "The Aspern Papers," by Henry James, and "The Despot of Broomsedge Cove," by Charles Egbert Craddock. A paper on "English Faith in Art," by Miss Pennell, questions whether a revival in art is not accompanied by a decline in religious feeling. To students of the fine arts this subject will be of great interest. Mr. Lowell contributes a poem, "Turner's Old Temeraire." An article on Lasalle, the Socialist, by D. O. Kellogg, is an interesting description...
...Huxley rejoiced to call himself an agnostic. So did Darwin, although Darwin at times leaned toward theism. Our great teachers at Harvard have been great theists, and no doubt Gray was greatly influenced by his companions. The theistic form of evolution seems never to have disturbed Asa Gray's faith. I wish to say that through his whole life Asa Gray was a student of theology; but Darwin said he had no time for studying religious truths. Gray observed Sunday; Darwin did not. As to the growth of the soul in old age these men stand in great contrast. Darwin...
...develop our faculties for seeking only what is good. But it is necessary to devote our youth and old age to this search if we wish to find truth in its symmetry, beauty and grandeur. The Lord will not mock our aspirations or our wants if asked in faith and reverence." The anthems, which were much better than customary, were "Hearken unto Me, My People," by Sullivan, and J. C. Knox's "Blessed...
...first article, "Integers and Fractions" is an excellent little essay in which the writer takes the ground that mankind is divided into two classes-the integers, those who look upon life in a manly earnest way, following out their allotted path with simple faith in their own power to do their duty; and the fractions, those who pursue one idea with such enthusiasm that they become bound up in it, forgetting that there are other aims and aspirations and duties in life beyond that one idea. The writer calls those who burst their bonds and try to fill a sphere...
...Imagination in Architecture" is a good attempt, but it fails to prove anything, through the self-same fault of which the writer accuses Ruskinmere assertion. The writer begins by abusing Ruskin for asking us to accept his statements on simple faith, and then turns round and asks his readers to believe that the effect produced on him (the writer) by a certain style of architecture is the same which would be produced on everyone. The paper is not long enough for a thorough ventilation of the subject, and is therefore, rather unsatisfactory...