Word: humanity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Human civilization depends first, upon making the physical world a store-house of instruments--facts; second, upon an increasing love of our ideals. We have, then, so far, a drawn battle between the advocates of the supremacy of facts and of ideals. But the greatest of our ideals is that there are ultimate facts, objects, that is, which, were we wise enough, we ought to observe. No man has seen God,--yet neither has he seen a fact. Ultimate facts are beyond our own experience, but not beyond any experience; and to say a fact does not exist...
...every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during the last ten years. Zola has betrayed Truth; he has made up his mind to depict human nature as ugly, and accordingly all classes fail to recognize themselves as he depicts them. In defence of this pessimistic attitude of Zola, the reply should be that one cannot expect an artist to paint things as they really are; but to paint things as he sees them. Zola...
...Roux is today one of the most eminent novelists and lecturers in France. He started in literature with the principle that a writer, before he gives form to his own experience, should study every mood of human activity. He therefore commenced with the study of low Parisian life; and then, ascending the social scale, he finally entered the society of most of the sovereigns of Europe. This inquiry has given him an insight into all classes of life which very few men have held; and it has in consequence made him an exceptional authority on human nature in its varying...
...columns of a college paper are evidently not intended for political discussion, much less for discussion of the affairs of foreign countries. Such matters sometimes, however, although they have no direct collegiate connection, have so deep a human interest that no paper, even a college daily is inappropriate of their presentation. I feel that the British treatment of the Boers is one of the questions which is, or should be, of universal interest. The situation as revealed in successive official British reports is simply appalling, and ought to be presented to this country so as to command wider attention than...
...conquering nation in the true sense. I want its light of liberty to shine around the world. I want its flag to be loved; and all people to bow down and turn their faces toward it, and thank God that there is one flag which stands for human rights and the doctrine of self government...