Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Alger's "The Snapping of the Bow-String" is suggestive in parts of Thomas Hardy. Its rustic coloring, its imaginative interpretation of external nature is quite masterful; only when the story analyses powerful human emotion and its results, is unconvincingness approached. Then it tends either to exaggeration or melodrama. If R. P. Bellow's "The Hoaxing of Truesdale Bynner" is more facile and interesting, as literature it promises less for the writer's future. But both stories have an atmosphere of serious literary intention that the Advocate would do well to cultivate more...
This little book should find a place in our libraries next to the less human documents, Buffon's "Discours sur le Style," and Herbert Spencer's "The Philosophy of Style...
...subject "Natural Religion as revealed in Hindooism." Whereas Christianity is steadily progressing, said he, Hindooism has shown a retrogression from its former ideals. The great reason for this degeneracy is to be found in the positive refusal of the Hindoo to recognize in his religion that broad human sympathy which is the basis of Chris tianity. His is a cold, impersonal pantheism, revelling in contradictions, tolerating all forms of religion and even no religion at all; but refusing to tolerate anything which conflicts with his caste system. With a marvillous faculty of imagination and beauty of thought, the Hindoo compbines...
...Professor Francis G. Peabody: Christ's Mission to Human Society...
...third art lecture last evening, Mr. Robinson considered the Greek treatment of the human head and the drapery of the body. He characterized the Greeks as recognizing as no other people have ever done the capabilities of drapery as expressing character both of thought and emotion; they best realized its importance as an accessory to the human figure...