Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...words of the text seem for away; seem to be fiting for our time. Yet what is wilderness? Is it not a place where law does not govern? If impulse rules the hour. If conscience ceases to be the throne from which God rules the human race. then civilization itself becomes a wilderness. So it may be said that in our time there is a wilderness, for secret potting, sedition, crime hold away and the law of the strongest still rules. Though the need for voices in the wilderness is ever decreasing, though all observation shows that the world...
...Ophelia's Dying Scene" from "Hamlet" Miss White had a better chance than in the "Aria" for showing what the human voice can do. Great technical skill is here demanded and she did the work justice...
...clock, an hour convenient for most members of the university make a pleasant break in the week, and afford an opportunity for the common worship of our Creator, a worship which as Dr. Donald so apply said, we all feel the need of simply because we are human beings...
...Donald said: The vesper services were not established for the purpose of instructing but for worship of God. There are constantly two streams flowing from the human heart. It is not enough that a man should have a clean conscience, and a clean head; there is a hunger for Almighty God that must be satisfied. We die alone and for the most part live alone; a man's friends and even his love, no matter how strong, are both insufficient. We are incapable of expressing what is in our hearts, so, feeling that God must know everything, we simply fall...
Contrary to common opinion, the Scandinavian was not especially bloodthirsty. It is true that he did rate human life low. His devotion to duty was strong and if he thought it his duty to kill several people he never hesitated to do it, although he had no admiration for wanton cruelty...