Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This leads again to consideration of the ambitious quality of the play. Its mood is the mood of poetic drama, but its matter is contemporary and actual. One is given at times a conviction that if a millionaire, instead of a practical but unmoneyed idealist were leading them, the Jews would follow as one man. So much of necessity has money meant to them. But then again one sees only the sublime doggedness of their one highest ideal-resisting compromise. The play in short sets one thinking, sets one contemplating a great ungathered people's fate as well...
...next point which the lecturer treated at considerable length was the attitude of the ethical idealist who aims steadily at perfection, and cares more for the quality of life than for its duration. It is a great help to a soul which is beginning to realize that human life is not finite to come under the influence of great man who convinces everyone that his personality, at least, does not end with this life...
Schiller was an idealist in the true meaning of the word, continued Mr. Thayer, having as his aim an ideal which should help all mankind, a supreme love of liberty. Firm in this ideal, he passed the first part of his life protesting against the servile conditions he saw about him. From the bitter disappointment caused by the failure of the French revolution to effect the liberty and happiness he so much desired, Schiller, the true idealist, rose triumphant, and devoted the rest of his life to teaching and uplifting the character by setting up, in his works, shining examples...
...true leadership. In order that he may draw his followers on to something greater and better, the leader must have a definite vision firmly fixed in his thought: he should look forward, not back, and, like Moses, Paul, Napoleon, Bismarck and Lincoln, must be not a traditionalist but an idealist...