Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...predecessors, the lecturer showed that in the eighteenth century poets had spoken of outside life; in the beginning of the present century they spoke of feelings and the inner life, yet with sterile aspirations into a world of dreams; Poushkin takes real life inasmuch as it is reflected in human feelings and, turning human feelings from their deviation into a world of fiction, restores them to real life...
...Savage took for his text two passages: Hebrews xii, 27 and 28; and Matthew v, 48. He showed that religion, stripped of its ceremonial and reduced to its essence, the effort of man to get into better relations with the Supreme Power, is a permanent element in human life; and that, furthermore, religion, in this abstract sense, is the one distinguishing characteristic of true manhood...
Distance of the object from the plate plays a big part in cathode photography. The successful photographs of the human hand have been those where the palm was facing the cathode, which put the bones nearer the plate by a very little. The greatest interest in the experiments is because of its application to surgery. Glass can be easily detected in the hand and in the foot...
...third picture was again of a turkey's wing with three shots in it, and a ring taken by a to and fro current which is the professor's way of finding out the distance of the object from the surface. The last picture was one of a living human hand taken in Hamburg, Germany. It is the best picture ever taken and was exposed an hour...
...greater thickness than the wrist. At present our experiments are limited to the hand and to children perhaps. My work has been devoted chiefly to shortening the time of exposure necessary and to getting parallel rays. I have succeeded so far in penetrating only about an inch of human flesh, but even this much, when applied to the surgery on the hand will alleviate much suffering...