Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that it blends a lofty faith in the moralities with psychological truth of character. "Iphigenie" is not, however, a realistic play in the sense of the extreme modern school, but it is profoundly realistic in the deeper sense in which Shakspere is realistic, by its faithful reproduction of human passions and of the interplay of human motives...
...plays were for the time forgotten in England, Hamlet continued to be played. This play, standing as it does among the plays of the tragic period, is the manifestation of some great grief which has entered Shakspere's life at this time. It represents also the impression which human tragedy made on his mind...
Bishop Lawrence spoke of the life and mental development of Phillips Brooks. Some men come to College with their minds already turned towards the study of a profession, but Phillips Brooks came rather to get a liberal education. Simple and companionable, he was capable of sympathy with all human interests. His note-books show that he was a much deeper man than even his most intimate friends realized. Without any of the eccentricities of genius, Phillips Brooks stood out as the great normal man, beside whom others seemed small. He was always an optimist, because he was a devout Christian...
Phillips Brooks was essentially human in his character. He was easily provoked to righteous anger; but at the bottom of his character there was an infinite sweetness. It was in the great prayer in July, 1865, in commemoration and thanksgiving for those Harvard men, who had taken part in the war, that Phillips Brooks revealed himself to Harvard graduates. It was through him that freedom and liberalness of religion was established at Harvard. Prayer was his great power. Through prayer addressed solely to the Almighty he reached human hearts...
...less serious side of the play is represented by the three typical characters, Malvolio, Toby Belch, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Malvolio may be described as a human donkey, one in whom the true relation of the parts of the character is hopelessly impaired by an inordinate self-conceit. Toby Belch, on the other hand, possesses a certain amount of wit and good humor which make him not unlike the famous Falstaff...