Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Home's Treatise of Human Nature...
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...
...whether it answers the demands of a man's nature. Man asks for but a word as a blessing from God, and in what manner is this message put before men(?) We do not want an answer to our demands which is so much divine and so much human, which divides itself into such components. Rather do we want such an answer as comes in the form of a living presence which inspires and helps us. Since we cannot improve upon the religion of Christ, let us use it. What Heaven is to be hereafter, we cannot imagine, but what...
...Zeus. He was the lightning god and various other functions were grouped around this one. The fear of lightning was very great among the Romans, and they held a lightning stroke to be a serious mark of the god's anger To appease it the necessary expiation was originally human sacrifices...
...George A. Gordon, of Boston conducted the services at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He took for the general subject of his address "rectitude, humanity and piety" and considered human life and ways of living from these three standpoints, laying especial stress upon rectitude and piety. He said that piety is too often assumed. There are too many young men who think that religion is superficial, that it may be put on at will, and put off at will as best suits his convenience. But a true, deep-feeling religious life consists rather in a life of just relations...