Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Last Southworth Foundation lecture on "The Church and the Social Awakening," by Mr. Robert Archey Woods, in Room A, Andover Seminary Building. Subject: "The Kingdom of Light: Up building of a New Social Order reciprocally involved with Regenerated Human Nature...
...pointed out the new interest in nature which sprang up soon after the middle ages and said that through nature there comes to man a partial revelation of the divine spirit. This revelation, however, is made complete to the human only by passing through a soul. The soul can realize God in revelation only by spiritual interpretation. There is no ready-made knowledge of God; it is gained by revelation in which the soul is the transmitter...
...subway's brim, a stupid mucker was to him. Then Mr. Sheldon proved that the mucker might be drama, and after him--the deluge. The action of "Kid" passes in a subway station represented by an admirable back drop new in the club's repertoire. The lines of this human little piece are not always successful, the lingo of the streets is dragged in, but under it all the people seem to be longing with a wild, fierce longing for Hill's "Rhetoric." To act this alien picture is difficult: Miss Adams and Mr. Whittemore were notably successful...
...human race is old and changes slowly, but we must not despair, for in a relative world one can not attain an absolute goal. We should be patient and do what we can to bring it about that more people can with reasonable hope aspire to a condition of greater happiness. It is to this aim that modern politics gives at least lip-homage...
...many directions to which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize and direct, must have creative ability and sound reasoning faculties. He must be acquainted with business methods, with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay; for there is no satisfaction so great as the realization that one has advanced the progress of mankind...