Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time when all Europe is concerned chiefly with discovering and putting to use new methods of blowing to pieces and patching up the human body, a greater interest than ever before attaches to the medical profession. Every day the invention of some new fiendish device of slaughter brings with it the counter-discovery of a new remedy. Day by day the problems of the physician become more intricate; and the field of medical science is broadened by leaps and bounds...
...dogma. But do these symptoms really signify that science and philosophy are taking the place of religion? Do they not rather denote a change in the outward manifestations of religious spirit, while this very spirit itself remains unimpaired? The instinctive belief in an Unknowable is deep-rooted in every human being. In an unconscious way even the most skeptical scientist is religious...
...most obvious element of attractiveness in the ministry is its stability as a continuing function of society. It rests back upon fundamental and essentially unchanging elements of human experience; it has the immense initial advantage of springing from, and appealing to, one of the central instincts of the human race. For the minister is par excellence the religious leader of the community and religion is one of the most serious, the most permanent and inclusive interests of human beings. The sex hunger, the desire for food and clothing the passion to understand ourselves and the universe in which we live...
...Morris Class contributes a vivacious and readable article on Brahms physician and friend, Dr. Billroth, which constitutes an interesting "human document...
...best means of imparting it to others. Efficiency based on knowledge is nowadays sought more eagerly than wisdom, both by the professor and by the student. The result is that the instructor has become to the student more and more of a speaking text-book, rather than a human being whose friendship is to be cultivated...