Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criminology, anthropology and primary education have all been touched by it for better or for worse. At the present day we are witnessing a momentously critical change in the attitude of mankind. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon formally inaugurated the scientific era, and man turned his face from God to the natural world. Today the emphasis upon the study of nature as a physical world is being to some extent replaced by an emphasis upon the study of human nature as a physical world. Backed by the methodology of science, man is setting about his prime task, that...
...must live its life; a living death is unendurable. The Finale, Allegro maestoso, is a majestic declaration of unconquerable faith and optimism--the intense expression of Beethoven's own words, 'I will grapple with Fate, it shall never pull me down'--to be compared only with Browning's 'God's in His heaven, all's right with the world,' and the peroration to Whitman's Mystic Trumpeter, 'Joy, joy, over all joy!' No adequate attempt could be made to translate the music into words. The Symphony is extremely subjective; indeed, autobiographic...
...replied the Friend, "it is God's church...
...mitigate suffering. The fine periods of that address were still echoing when the Cardinals met to elect a new Pope. Ten ballots were cast and as the smoke of their burning ascended from the Vatican, it was della Chiesa, not del Val, who experienced the emotion of becoming God's spokesman on earth...
...Arctic, were held last fortnight at the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. They were sponsored by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Said Bishop William Thomas Manning: "Amundsen's achievements were the triumph of mind and soul over matter . . . signs and proofs of our kinship with God...