Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ruskin's central contentions in his theory of political economy are the theses that economic questions cannot be understood apart from ethical and social considerations; and that moral facts having immediate relation to human character are inextricably involved in all production of economic goods. The gist of his idea is in the words, "There is no wealth but life." That his social ideas have never been realized is due to the fact that they involve a reversion to social forms which can never again be permanently established...
...Fichte, the Philosopher." There may have been, he said, more comprehensive thinkers, more careful analysts of the soul among the German philosophers but there has never been a manlier man or truer witness of light and truth than Fichte. His system of thought is founded upon the recognition of human freedom...
...Michelangelo's work the sensuous beauty of the elder art gives place to an intensity of life of which the ancient sculptors had little conception. The art of Greece shows us human nature in untroubled freedom, the art of Michelangelo brings before us the poignant strivings of a later day when the soul obtained peace only through the mastery of evil. Life as he sees it is not hopeless, but sublime. Both his sculpture and his poems bear profound testimony to his belief in the realities of Christianity...
...natural reaction of conduct upon character: the suffering which he portrays has not been arbitrarily inflicted, but is the logical result of sin. His mind, despite his liberal tendencies, was of the seventeenth century type. The grim symbolism of his Hell is as stern and terrible as human realism can contemplate...
...today prints in full President Eliot's address before the Newsboys' Union, delivered in Boston last Sunday evening. He set forth in a comprehensive way the qualities that tend most to make a successful life, and emphasized the idea that hard work is the greatest of all promoters of human happiness...