Word: human
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...living faith in future existence has no place in the modern social and political problems which face the human race. One reason for the prevailing popular indifference is caused by uncertainty. It is commonly supposed, that a man is appalled at the approach of death. This is erroneous, for as a rule man dies uninfluenced by the thoughts of future life...
...will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, of Keene, N. H., and provides for the delivery of a lecture each year on "The Immortality of Man," and for its publication after delivery. Thus far five lectures have been given: "Immortality and the New Theodicy," by Rev. George A. Gordon '81; "Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine," by Professor William James M.'69; "Dionysus and Immortality," by President Benjamin I. Wheeler, of the University of California; "The Conception of Immortality." by Professor Josiah Royce; and in 1900, "Life Everlasting," by Dr. John Fiske...
...Beethoven overture we have a most striking contrast, for here the descriptive suggestion is not of the elements of the outward world, but of the emotions and passions of a human soul. The agitated opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 will deliver an address on the negro question entitled, "They are Intensely Human," before the Graduate Club at 8 o'clock in the Assembly Room of the Union...
Colonel Higginson will show how his two years of experience in command of the first regiment of freed slaves mustered in the United States service during the Civil War proved to him that "they are intensely human." He will explain that the points which separate the colored people from the whites are trivial as compared with those they have in common, and that it is by simply dealing with them as human beings that we shall do them and ourselves most justice...