Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a period in which Assyrian art excelled, when the human form was carefully and vigorously drawn, but there followed a period of decadence in which details of attire and scenic surroundings were more aimed after. Even here, however, we must admire the admirable execution of detail...
...world. Harvard tries to give an institution to men to give them a place where they can develop themselves and work out their own character. Harvard's principle recognizes more fully the differences in men. It has far larger possibilities and is based on a great confidence in human nature...
...next article "Two Types," is first, the thoughts of an anarchist and secondly the thoughts of an aristocrat: There seems to be little point to the piece, and we can but regret that such sides of human character, though merely fancied and only in a college paper should be put into print...
...word vision is here used not as knowledge in the ordinary sense of the word, but what was communicated to the prophets by the spirit of the Lord. A bright and pleasant vision is essential to a man's success in life and the noblest benefactor of the human race is he who gives the brightest visions. The human reason left to itself can make but little headway while combined with the imagination, it leads to the greatest result. What takes away the pain of the ghastly, gaping tomb, of the faces of distressed friends, of the dissolution...
...each man, and in himself alone, rests the influence that guides him; that each day is "the judgment day"; that in each one of us is Heaven and Hell, not in some distant and far off mysterious land. Such writings, as long as there is room for improvement in human nature, as long as crime and ignorance exist, cannot help doing good...