Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...right: (a) It rests on the old idea of retribution and is not reformatory. (b) It makes conviction less certain. (c) It tends to weaken the sacredness of human life. (d) It is irrevocable...
...only in religion, however, that there are different parties and quarrels coming from unimportant things. In politics there are always two parties contending against each other. It is the same in many matters of life. So it seems as if it is not religion which is narrow, but only human nature cropping out in this as in everything else. Religion is broad in every way, in the time which it covers,- for it extends over eternity,- in its work, which is the redemption of mankind...
...with a measuring line comes to us and lays down in accurate terms all the mountainous obstacles which lie in our path. The twelve disciples were sent out to convert the world; the same surveyor presented to them a careful estimate of the great indifference of the human race towards religion, the pagan armies of the mighty Roman Empire which must be overcome, but the little band of twelve did what they could from year to year until gradually the mountains crumbled away and the road lay level before them to the converting of the world...
...same trouble confronts us today under different aspects, in the struggle between labor and capital. The man with the measuring line comes with his same answer, the difficulty is insurmountable; it lies in human nature, but God is with the right and order will of necessity grow out of this perplexed struggle...
What makes an object picturesque, he said, is the first question to be solved, and it is a decidedly hard question to answer. Beauty is that quality which is constituted in rich, easy flowing lines,- the outline of the human figure, for example; but the picturesque is that subtle quality which results from nature's perfecting the crude attempts of man to produce beauty...