Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lectures of a man so well known in his department, although perhaps on a less popular branch of the study, are deserving of large attendance. The science so thoroughly developed by Rawlinson and lately by Schliemann and his co-workers has become a common and widely interesting part of human knowledge. Even part of the news of the daily press of late years has been reports of the successes or failures of archaeologists working upper the direction of states or through individual effort...
...idea is good in spite of the danger. The richer the man the more he should pay in proportion to his wealth. One percent of of $10,000 is a much larger amount for a human being to pay in taxes than one percent...
...that comparisons are odious but it is human to make them and therefore natural to contrast the "Acharnians" with the "Oedipus." Whether prejudiced in Harvard's favor or not, I think no one would deny that the "Oedipus" was the much more interesting production. The "Acharnians" lacks that strong human interest which a tragic story has in every age. Personal invective (like the attacks on Lamachus) must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give...
...which was pressed on was tempted by it, and at last broke open in the attempt to find it. Experience was larger than Whitfield. Dogma was larger than Henry Calvin; life was larger than theology, and so, one after another, in these which are the concentric spheres within which human nature lives, the successive opening of the partial into the universal and the temporary with the eternal, came. Not less, but more mysterious, and religious, is the little floating part when it bears the vast whole on every side, calling with deep voice, and opens its small existence...
...mockery of the baser thoughts of life, the lower ideas of learning which the wood contains. Alas for the college if that be so; for only when a great university cultivates character and insists on righteousness because so only can she know the real truth concerning the divine and human, concerning God and man, only then has she claimed her place within that power which bridges the eternities, only then has she really given herself to Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and forever...