Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wished merely to show his thoughts. The central point of Whitman's poetry seems to have been the significance of individual existence. He looks on every man as a separate personality, whose place neither in time nor eternity can any other take. This presupposes a peculiar view of human nature. We are used to contrasting the littleness of self with the greatness of nature. Whitman stands at ease before nature, which he holds is only to serve man's purposes...
...leading feature in the Crawford Shoe-it fits the average human foot as good as a shoe made to order...
Bishop Vincent dwelt upon the thought of God as revealed in the study of nature and Art. Every growing thing, every human life, is a word of God. The flowers, the leaves, the trees, the hills, all are beautiful in themselves, but they are more beautiful as the symbols of divine beauty...
...leading feature in the Crawford Shoe-it fits the average human foot as good as a shoe made to order...
...Flaubert note in the main artistic procedure and the painful battle of the artist with the elements of his craft. Stevenson also is revealed as a laboring artist, but the vivid epistles written from Samoa to Mr. Sidney Colvin exhibit varied and significant traits of the heroic yet very human man as well as of the brilliant writer waging an unequal warfare with life...