Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instant we take one step in the direction of culture we are brought into contact with the Christian Church. It is interesting to watch the non-effectual struggles of those artists and writers who try to ignore the Christian religion in their efforts to express the best in human nature. Human culture, so far as it acquaints men with the best in the world, is bound up irresistibly with the Christian religion...
There are two tempers of mind found both in the Christian and the non-Christian faiths, the world-accepting and the world-renouncing tempers. The believer who accepts the world as a revelation of God and who finds in every human act and relation a deep meaning, believes in a better world because of the very incompleteness of this world. The nonbeliever looks forward to death because it closes all, and the believer because it does not. In the world-accepting view the believer tries to find God's will for man and following it he finds that...
...more pointedly a thing is expressed, the more easily it is grasped. The great man is the man who can fix in an epigram the dominant idea of his day. Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt have done this. When Colonel Roosevelt said in his Paris speech, "Whenever human rights and property rights conflict, human rights must take the lead," he was expressing the dominant thought of democratic government today. And that, says Mr. Bryan, was Colonel Roosevelt's greatest speech...
...comic drawing showing Rev. Lyman Abbott and Eva Tanguay, the actress, linked arm in arm and in scanty attire, labelled "Human Affinities," has caused the suppression by President Lowell of this week's issue of the Lampoon, the famous Harvard comic weekly...
Without doubt all of our readers have seen the very humorous drawing to which this refers, and, consequently, are aware that the two characters are not "linked arm in arm" and that the drawing is labelled "Historic" not "Human Affinities." The bald and unqualified statement that the issue was suppressed by President Lowell is a bald and unqualified falsehood. The remainder of the item is a cleverly worded implication that the Lampoon's drawing does not conform to a very rigorous sense of decency. Incidentally, there is no mention of the broad black band that occupies a large portion...