Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purely intellectual side of religion is taken up. The question of the "Utility of obedience to moral law" is variously answered. From the prophetic point of view good men will always prosper; Job with much boldness endeavors to treat the subject from the stand point of human reason...
...museum will be able to represent the front of an ancient palace at Labua. Casts of the building will be taken from moulds made by Mr. Edward Thompson. The casts are valuable as showing the strange workmanship in the old stone carvings of the palace. A collection of human skulls found near Zuni has been presented by Mrs. Hemenway; this collection will be of great assistance in comparative study...
...from our finite point of view inexplicable. Such evil as tends to make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth. If one dwells upon the capriciousness of fortune and of the human Will, one finds that paradox...
...Moulton began with the definition of the word humour and its derivation. It was derived from the Latin root meaning moistur and during the Middle Ages came to be applied in the plural to the moistures or juices which on old medical authority made up the constitution of a human being, as bile or phlegm. So a bilious or phlegmatic humour came to mean a certain character or state. This was the sense in which Jonson used "humour," in the play "Every Man out of his Humour...
...redemption, with a view to showing that the Incarnation was an event in harmony with the Divine Law, and that all that is recorded of it in the Bible is precisely true and essential to a right understanding of the redemption, which not only changed the current of human affairs but verified the Scriptures and introduced to men the most perfect form of religion when received in the spirit of rational faith...