Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...distinction between technical and popular appeal, and render abstract subjects intelligible to the common man. Whatever he wrote, said, or did, was instinct with abounding life. Whether readers agreed with his books or dissented, all perceived that they vitalized their subjects. Several obliged a kind of new departure of human thought in their respective fields, the most notable being "The Principles of Psychology," 1890; "Talks to Teachers on Psychology," 1899; "The Varieties of Religious Experience," 1902; and "Pragmatism...
...knew William James thought less of his learning and renown than of his massive and inspiring personality. The universal admiration given him was ever mixed with love. From him men drew their ideals of human character and were grateful to him for being what he was. They found him the best of comrades--simple, engaging, generous in his estimates of others, tender as a woman, fair-minded, playful, reverent, and unconventional, with a natural elevation of thought and manner which made all excellence easy in his presence. As we now recall that erect form, alert bearing, kind eye, and masterful...
Theobald Smith, discoverer of the cause of Texas Fever, who taught men to seek in insects the source of human plagues; he stands among the great benefactors of mankind...
...which is that the sacerdotal system obscures the broad distinction between the Church and the Kingdom of God. The true view of the question is that people are in the Church because they are already in the Kingdom, not that the Church is a stepping stone whereby the human soul may mount to the Kingdom...
German as all this is, alike in outward aspect and inner spirit, in both speech and action, it is universally human, comprehensible, and touching, while the exotic setting, as it seems to us in American, of the Karlsberg court and the Heidelberg inn, only adds another tang to the pleasure of the whole. Thus, in a measure, is "Alt Heidelberg" proof against any sort of performance; but it needed relatively few of these defences in the representation that the members of the Deutscher Verein accomplished last night. They had, too, the aid of a part of the Pierian Sodality...