Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Human Life and Ideals through the Dark and Middle Ages...
...last of all the Lord sent His son saying: "Surely they will reverence My son." This is the appeal to the soul; but mark how the householder did not sit in judgement, but the husbandmen. So Christ stands at the bar of your poor human judgment and asks if you will receive Him. Each one must make a deliberate judgment. Perhaps, however, you will say that the question is not settled in this way. Your judgment is the result of the many little judgments that you have previously made. The boy who yielded to the influence of evil companions, disobeying...
November 17. - Human Life and Ideals through the Dark and Middle Ages...
...great discovery. The real meaning and secret of his being is that his life is allied to the life of God, and that the life of God is ready to express itself. Nothing could satisfy him except the life of God. This is the whole record of human life; from childish innocence through youthful dissatisfaction, disgust aids It consciousness to sonship with God. But there is another call, the call of the bride. The bride is humanity, that humanity where there is no bond or free, white or back, master or servant but one brotherhood of God. This humanity...
...surroundings, but man's world is much greater and more complex than that of any animal. This new world is the product of man's reason. But can man himself be shown to be a natural product? There are arguments which point that way, but we cannot prove that human action is always in accordance with natural laws, and the results of man's action are sometimes so evil that we cannot attribute them to any national power. We can trace a progress of reason in human life, on the whole, but there is moral evil as well as pain...