Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...general idea of nature is the most important. A picture, accurate in every detail of some scene in real life, is pleasing when we first look at it, because of the story which it tells, but it always tells the same story; it can tell but one story because of the care which has been taken to represent this one idea truthfully. A picture fulfilling our ideal gives the suggestion of nature with just sufficient accuracy to enable the outsider to put his own characters in the place of those on the canvas, so that the picture...
...wishes to appreciate Buddha and his teachings must first obtain an idea of the place and time into which Buddha was born...
...asceticism and belief in pantheism. At this time there came a number of sects, each one of which offered its own way to heaven. There is no doubt that there was much that was holy and noble about many of these teachings. The outgrowth of this period was the idea of the Supreme Being. The Indian pantheism made each soul not a part of, but identical with, this being. The tendency of this belief is to drown all personality. That is why so few names of great men have come to us from India...
...endeavor to interest the students in the matter of starting a fund to be used as a memorial to the late Secretary Bolles. There is no question but that the undergraduates of the University, to very many of whom Mr. Bolles was a personal friend, will support the idea with the greatest enthusiasm when once they see the appropriateness of such a fund; and we are assured by a prominent graduate that men who have left the University in the last few years will be deeply interested in the matter. Mr. Bolles had as the central idea and the chief...
...parts of his plays are delightful. Jonson is more difficult to understand. His works show a fine intelligence, much cleverness, and a good deal of art, his dialogues being especially bright and interesting. Comedy owes him a great debt in that he was the first to make conspicuous the idea of suggesting whole characters by means of a few characteristic traits. It is customary to regard him as the beginning of the decline of the drama, but it is perhaps fairer to say that with him artificial comedy began...