Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...outset there were two incongruous conceptions about the state of the dead. One was that they were powerful. This belief brought with it a corresponding cultus of the dead. On the other hand was the conception of the dead as "the weak," or "languid." The idea of the tomb in which the members of a family were buried, grew to the larger idea of sheol or the underworld, a place of dark, gloomy depths. Several passages in the Bible indicate the belief that earthly distinctions were carried into the other world...
...cause of the advance of Hebrew ideas from the animistic level was the prophetic Yahwism. The Babylonian captivity was the moral victory of prophecy. It had a very beneficial effect on religion, for it separated the people from the accustomed ritual, and increased their spirituality. Thus new influences came to bear upon the Jews at a time when they were best prepared to receive them. Here the conception of Yahweh began to rise. In Ezekiel the rescue of Israel from her troubles is portrayed by the well-known and splendid figure of the resurrection of the bones. This figure...
...John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University (Essay on Christianity and Letters) from "In the country which has been" through "the best guarantees for intellectual progress," to be translated into Latin...
...these runs is to bring out a large number of men and by this means to increase the possibilities of discovering new material for the track. In order to accomplish this end the runs must offer the greatest possible attractions to such men as do not have any special idea of prize winning. Cross country running, to be sure, must, if the name is to signify anything, be through fields and up and down hills for at least a part of the way. It is not at all necessary, however, that courses be chosen which lead through clay pits...
...article on Harvard was written by Professor Charles Eliot Norton a few years ago for Harper's Magazine. The purpose of the article was to give the general public an idea of the life at Harvard, to set forth its exceptional educational advantages, and to make plain its position as the first of American universities...