Word: higher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school appealed to the imagination, the faith, and the superstition of the people. Instead of a onesided worship of Latin and Greek literature they proclaimed the universality of literature in all ages and among all nations. The great works of Schiller and Goethe, white lifting German literature to a higher plane, had tended to remove it further and further away from the understanding of the masses. The Romantic School endeavored to restore literature to the place it held in the Middle Ages when almost the whole intellectual activity of the nation centered in its poetry. The Middle Ages became...
...great altar in which sacrifices were made. Views were also shown of the sculptures on the friezes of the different buildings, which are valuable as giving an idea of the implements of warfare used at that time. The sculpture of Pergamon lacks the grace and beauty which marks the higher period of Greek art. It is too huge and cumbersome, but displays energy and unbounded fire...
...acts within from outside reports." The soul may be separated from the body as in the case of clairvoyants, and it may see independently of the eyes, but any real separation cannot be proved. He went on to say "the more a man's spiritual development is attained, the higher he sees his ideal above him. So with Christ who exclaimed, "Why call eye me good!" Man lives in eternity, and these ideals are never fulfilled in the earthly life. Man is a mortal being, but he is above mortality in that he looks beyond it. Does the belief...
...considered a new doctrine, but in its fundamental principles, in its thought and feelings, it is as old as creation. The Christian moral life was more aspiring and fraternal than the other religions which flourished in the first century; hence it was that it attracted followers so widely. One higher view which Christianity takes concerning men is the idea of fraternity of sinners, of the help and encouragement that should be shown brother men simply because they are sinners. As the emblems of Christmas are now seen, as the season of good will and peace to all men approaches...
...profession when more than 33 per cent. are replaced every year? There are a few men and women who look upon it as a profession. The great majority of persons who teach, however, never intend to treat teaching as a profession. I say, therefore, that the institutions of higher education have some good reasons for not attempting to teach the philosophy of education. I thing, too, we may offer another apology for not having attempted to teach the history of higher education. It is the most terrible history in the world, and it is the most depressing thing...