Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These laws as they impressed themselves upon the play, were mainly those of the human sympathies and prejudices; and in order to be successful, the dramatist must study their effects, even though he cannot analyse their elements...
...come now to the system which depends upon, yet rules, all others. Affections of the nervous system are now and have been for some time on the increase. If I were asked to name that part of the human organism upon which the health and strength of an individual most depends, I should unhesitatingly say the nervous system. The reflex actions are those produced by some cause exciting a nerve which has its termination in the spinal cord and which does not extend into the brain. Walking, called automatic, is one of the reflex actions. Did all nerves terminate...
...Since the noblest life on earth is always human life, the literature which deals with human life must always be the noblest literature; and, since the individual human life must always have a distinctness of interest, which cannot belong to any of the groups of human life, biography must always have a charm which no other kind of history can rival...
...superficial view which we are taking of the anatomy of the human body, the skin may be considered as composed of two layers, the outer of which is known by various names, as the scarf skin, epidermis, or cuticle. It serves as a covering to protect the true skin beneath it. There are in this epidemis no blood-vessels or sensory nerves. The thickness of this outer skin varies, in different parts of the body, from 1-240 to 1-12 of an inch. This increase in thickness is due, in a measure, to the pressure to which these parts...
...ballot intelligently to secure those great reforms so sadly needed. The majority of the students were ardent followers of Carl Marx, and possessed the greatest confidence in the power of the people to establish that form of society which would bring the greatest prosperity and happiness to the human race. The influence of so large a number of resolute, able men, well educated, and fitted in every way to be the leaders of a great popular movement, must be regarded as a powerful and significant factor in the tremendous problems of social life, and the opinions and character of these...