Word: hebraism
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...often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between what Arnold called Hebraism-the urge of conscience to follow the best moral light man has-and Hellenism-the spirit of inquiry that constantly questions conscience to be sure that it does not mislead, that the best light is not superstitious darkness. He foresaw that the 19th century's grim but necessary preoccupation...
Pound has never minced words about Milton. He dislikes the Puritan epicist for "his asinine bigotry, his beastly hebraism, the coarseness of his mentality." Says Smith, "Mr. Eliot is far too urbane to express his disapproval in such Miltonic terms," but he too carries on a "deft, inconspicuous sniping," has mentioned Dryden as being "far below Shakespeare, and even below Milton." "Note," cries vigilant Defender Smith, "the tiny drop of poison in the phrase . . . 'even Milton...
...President Hoover last week appointed Herman Bernstein, famed Jewish publicist, U. S. Minister to Albania. Born (1876) on the Russo-German border, Mr. Bernstein came to the U. S. at 17. Espousing Hebraism, he gave sharp battle to Jew-baiting Henry Ford. Last week he gave Mr. Ford, now his friend, credit for the appointment...
Lewisohn has found "all knowledge and worldly wisdom"; embodied in Hebraism, "righteousness, humanity, and peace.'' These are the permanent values he has resolved to serve, believing that a synthesis of Hellenism and Hebraism is the hope of the world. Christianity has no place-Pauline Christianity which Mr. Lewisohn identifies with the divorce laws of New York and therefore with the root of his troubles. "My country and its Christian laws have no regard for love or virtue or the creative mind but give their support to legalized malignity and moral foulness if only these mouth the moral saws...
...themselves the beauty and the inspiration of the work. And be delivers for themselves the beauty and the inspiration of the work. And he delivers thoughtful, though provoking lectures on the content of the Old Testament. He is a great teacher. Though Plato and Aristotle might balk at implied Hebraism, they would be pleased at his efforts. Why must his method remain eccentric? It is difficult for the undergraduate to answer. And when he has read the Outlines of Courses it is even more...