Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...beginning of the organization of labor coincided with the beginning of the factory age, when the long hours, resulting from the new use of artificial light, the little regard for human life, and the introduction of the labor of women and children called forth protests from all thinking men. The reduction of the working day from fourteen or sixteen hours to twelve was met with the same arguments of the impending ruin of industry and the invasion of the rights of workingmen as are now leveled against the eight-hour day. But it would be difficult...
...Italy," quoted Dr. Sandys at the beginning of his lecture, "was attended by the discovery of the world and of man." From Marco Polo to Columbus the explores of the fifteenth century were discovering the worked; and the discovery of man is evidenced by the awakening of the human spirit from the sleep of the Middle Ages to human individuality and a vital sense of man's dignity. With this came also an awakened interest in the Latin authors. Following Petrarch's discovery of some of Cicero's correspondence came the discovery of the remainder by Niccoli...
...scenery and men, will stay away; but there are other students for whom the names of Grenfell and of Labrador now mean little, and to them I would say that this is a precious opportunity, not only to increase their knowledge of our continent, but to enlarge their human sympathies. Dr. Grenfell is first of all a man, a man of the eternal heroic type; and merely to get the impression which his personality unconsciously gives one is an inspiration. WILLIAM JAMES...
...going to learn French unless by listening and trying to understand it? And the course, so far from being especially for students in history, has so far revealed itself as just the reverse. M. Millet is primarily a man of living affairs, and his talent for bringing out the human essence involved in complex situations is incomparable. For vivacity, naturalness, and "go," he seems to me the most gifted lecturer we have had here in many a long year, and his audience listens as if spellbound...
...gradually to pieces by the onslaught of Napoleonic imperialism. A few great men, notably Kant, Goethe and Schiller, remained to re-awaken the national soul. Schiller strove to create perfect natures by the perfection of every quality given us, and by the conception of art as the highest of human activities. The present times, with their material, worldly tendencies, the merging of the souls of individuals into soulless machines, offer a splendid mission for Schiller's conception of art; and that art would be a tower of strength in the struggle for an enlightened, unselfish, elevated national consciousness...