Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...function and beautifully expressive. The construction is simple and forms an ideal organism. Entering between the columns at the east end or front, one comes to the cella where the shrine was. Beyond is another chamber or adytum, which was used probably as a treasury. The whole idea of the temple was a house for the goddess, surrounded by columns upholding a roof...
...Education." While Superintendent of Schools at Pueblo, Colorado, Mr. Search created much interest in educational circles by his success in organizing and conducting the "Pueblo plan" for primary and secondary education. This plan, which was published in detail in the "Educational Review" for February, 1894, has for its fundamental idea the conservation of the individual in the large classes necessary in our public schools. "The pupil is placed purely with reference to where he can get the most good for himself. He works as an individual, progresses as an individual, is promoted as an individual and graduates as an individual...
...some years past there has been a widespread idea that there is a conflict between the truths of science and religion. By many people religion has been taken as a kind of sentiment rather than a rational belief. The first real difficulty in the way has been the Biblical account of the creation of the world in six days. In view of the gradual development of other planets, it seems hard to believe that the world could have reached so high a state of development in six days. But this account is not to be taken too literally...
...Plato's idea of the Deity was far more metaphysical than religious: his God was an Eternal Essence. He believed the first attribute of the soul to be that by which men and beings are endowed with life. But he also considered that the soul had a purely irrational part which cannot think...
...Platonic doctrine that some ideas are visible only to the soul and not to the body, is closely connected with the Platonic idea of the soul. Plato believed the soul to be immortal. He believed in an ideal world above the heavens which were the real home of souls, exiled and imprisoned on earth...