Word: god
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...abused. He is particularly beset by two so-called friends, who use his house as their own for selfish ends, the one to provide his daily food and lodgings, the other to secure a husband for his daughter. Interwoven with the main plot are the adventures of Marmaduke's god-son, Alfred Wemyss, who has got himself entangled in a love affair with the wife of a fiery Mexican, Don Guzman. The play is in three acts. The scenes, three in number, are laid in San Francisco, at the present...
...sanctuary of his own soul he found the peace and security he had yearned for. Never was there a greater difference between the outer and inner life than we see at this time in Dante. The hand of man had let him go, and he grasped the hand of God...
Dante believed firmly that the setting forth of the lessons of wisdom was his divinely appointed task, and that in his work he was guided and strengthened by God himself. He intended to lead men to a happier, better condition on earth, by showing them the misery that they made for themselves by sin, and by pointing out the way by which they must ascend to blessedness. In few other works of men do we find such uninterrupted consistency of purpose as in the Divine Comedy. From the beginning to the end of the poem the aim of Dante...
There are, said Dr. Vincent, certain questions which arise everywhere, to all men at all times: Is there a God whom we should worship and obey? Does death end all? Is there another world all about us and of which we are a part? Jesus gives us a solution in his ministry, of an open heaven, of the Father's witness, and of the ideal of true manhood. No man can compare with him in his relations to man and to God...
Science is primarily a characteristic of the Aryan race. The earliest idea was that all things were ordained by a power greater than man. Invariably there is the idea of a god or a number of gods resembling mankind in form. The first great step in the advance of science was the dehumanizing of the causes which brought about all natural phenomena. This was due to Plato who founded that school of philosophers known as the Sceptics. Aristotle carried Plato's idea further. He conceived that the production of everything was due to antecedent causes. Thus science departed from...