Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...parable in Jeremiah of the potter's house. In the parable there is an obvious object lesson. There are three things necessary for the formation of a bit of pottery, the clay, the wheel and the potter's hand. So it is in the formation of a human being; there is the body and the mind corresponding to the clay, experience, environment, corresponding to the wheel, God, back of all the work, corresponding to the potter...
...there is an exhortation as well as an object lesson in the parable. Unlike the clay the human being has power to resist the operation of the wheel and the potter's hand. A man predetermins his own course. He may from choice make himself, against conscience and God, bad. The responsibility, then, rests on each of us to cooperate with, rather than resist the forces which are shaping our lives...
...religion, Christ is a door, through which Divinity comes to Humanity, just as the artist, the thinker, are door between the realms of beauty, and truth, and men. Through Christ God reveals himself to men. There is an innate passion in the human mind for expansion and one of the forms which this passion takes is a search for God. It is to this searching that the words come "I am the door...
...possible, the expression of all that is noble in man. By grouping together, representations of three types of character, all different, yet all pointing to one ideal conception of manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed in Schubert's unfinished symphony, a life beautifully calm, yet with its moments of sorrow, finally, to that magnificent expression of manhood in Beethoven's grandest symphony, culminating in the glorious burst of triumph...
...Nikisch chose the evening's music with the special idea of making it a memorial to Mr. Lowell, and no better choice could have been made, to bring back to mind the variety of gift and emotion which characterized his nature. The Symphonies, especially Beethoven's, are eminently human in quality, and it is due to just this fact, that they inspire so much feeling in people. There was an evident fitness in this music, in which the passions, the hopes, the joys, and disappointments of life, are so strangely intermingled, and especially did the fitness show itself...