Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Huntington said: The finest scholars, after taking a few steps in the course of their researches, always find themselves confronted by an impassible wall. They reach the end of human knowledge and feel the littleness of it. In such cases it is necessary to look higher, to have faith in the infinite wisdom...
...conclusion, this view, which holds that the world of mechanism is itself essentially "teleological." is applied to the case of the relation between body and mind, and to the problem of human "Freedom." The latter is solved in the sense of Kant's famous doctrine of the "two-fold" human nature, "empirical" and "transcendental," "fatal" and "free...
...strong walls. Cities without walls, however, were not very rare, and they were often full of beautiful works of art, and their citizens famous in oratory and literature, but these were the defenceless cities, open on all sides to the attacks of enemies. It is just the same with human souls; those alone are secure from temptations which are well enclosed in a wall of moral courage and right. A man has no right to enter college, no right to enter the world unless he has this defense about him. Many men who are without it may be wits...
...modern method of thought-from romantic idealism to modern realism. He was a naturalist who studied nature only to find out in it the expressions of divine will. Hegel built up an inadequate but interesting philosophy of history, trying to explain on a Kantian basis the theory of human life. He could not get into the inner facts of nature but this was the first onslaught of constructive idealism upon realism. This onslaught failed, but men began to realize that nature's mysteries were not unfathomable. The mysteries are of a spiritual nature but can only be studied through...
...Sept. 29th, 1889," by F. B. Heitman; Achille Luchaire's "Les Communes Francaises a Pepoque des Capetiens directs; Mendelyeef's "Grundlagen der Chemie"; A facsimile of the earliest edition of Columbus's letter announcing the discovery of the New World; "Leibnitz's New Essays Concerning the Human Under standing," John Dewey; D. McK. Kerly's "Historical Sketch of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery," being the Yorke prize essay of Cambridge University in 1889; Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason;" A. C. Merriam's "Telegraphing Among the Ancients;" "A Dictionary of Music and Musicians...