Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like the spectroscope, it can both feel and record these impalpable impulses and impressions, these impersonal vibrations of identity between the fragmentary life that is in himself and the larger life of a universe whereof he is a particle...
...what I mean. In life, as in a meanly-appointed theatre, the parts are doubled and the same actor who stalked as the majesty of buried Denmark, may appear as a clown after a change of scenes. The lover, the poet, the mourner, the mystic, after their fine frenzies feel that there is something ludicrous in dining, and to confess a fondness for lobster or a sorrow that oysters are out of season seems a satire on their hardly cold ideal longings and regrets...
...triumphs of science in its application to commerce and the arts of life, it is still only the achievements of the imagination that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that something greater and rarer went to the making of Hamlet than to the invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse. Men have always been willing to pay the highest prices for things that were of no practical use whatever, and though a Frenchman has said that cookery...
...class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment, they had never felt. It seems the revelation of a new heaven and new earth, and to contain in itself its own justification. Then suddenly recollecting his duty, he shuts the window, calls them back to their tasks, and is equally...
...really a college institution, largely managed by college men, no such important step as moving into new quarters should be undertaken without explaining it to the college and giving the students a chance to discuss it. All men who have ever taught at the Union and any others who feel interested in the work are accordingly invited to meet Mr. Ely, the president of the Union, and Professor Peabody at 1 Wadsworth House this afternoon at four o'clock...