Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...power, said Bishop Vincent, by which the soul is restored from evil is due to the grace of God. There is no point at which any man can say that he owes anything to himself and not to the infinite goodness. No human responsibility or work wrought in us by human choice can be compared with the work...
...others to be a state of pleasurable emotion; but its real significance is in changing the permanent element in a man, which we call character. Thus salvation is a transfer from the world of inward confusion to the world of peace and serenity. It is wrought by human decision and by grace through faith...
...beautiful in art, not only deprives one of the most pleasurable of intellectual resources, but dulls the moral sensibility, and robs the character of its beauty and dignity. On the other hand a love for poetry transforms a man from a solitary individual into a part of the great human race, and reveals to him all that is best and most beautiful in the soul...
...poet is the interpreter of his age to itself, yet he is not the interpreter to his age alone. He is the contemporary of all ages. The Ilad and Odyssey are not antiquated and the characters of Shakespeare are all modern characters because human nature remains unalterable in its essential elements...
These glaciers also augmented the topographical peculiarities of New England and consequently afforded more variety in human interests and human development. The effect of the glacial movement of the soil was also good, making it of a more enduring character. Undoubtedly all these conditions went toward making the New England type of man as high as any in the world...