Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poetry of the number seems to us to be below the Monthly's usual standard. Of the two poems, "The Answer" is the better. But it is decidedly inferior to what its author has done before and certainly cannot stand comparison with its author's most lately published poem, "Dolarosa," - although the diction is simple and natural and certain lines are very good. "The Builder - Science" has the double fault of extreme vagueness of thought and inaptitude of diction...
...stars and earth Man can interfere, for evil or for good, with the work of physical forces, no changing their law but bringing them into new combinations. We must therefore try to understand man's nature. As a first step we must learn to know inferior living things. Plants and animals should be studied in their tree life is the woods and fields. All men can have some practical knowledge of this wild life. In the scientific study of life we must move very cautiously, take careful teachers of special sciences, and not popular fashions of thought. Unless we have...
...third class of objects, the casts, are hardly inferior to the originals except as a matter of sentiment. Assyria and Babylon furnish the largest share. Among the casts on the floor are bronze and stone weights in the shape of lious and ducks from the commercial system of the Babylonians and Assyrians. There are five clay books that deserve special mention; the sun god in his temple at Sepharvoim., a grant of land by a Babylonian king to his servant, the cuneiform account of the deluge, a record of Nebuchadnezzar's building operations and a sale of real estate...
Diodorus gives the first connected sketch of his life and character. Plutarch's account is the most complete, Diogenes' being shorter and inferior...
...coming at the end of the programme, and directly after Wagner's production on the same theme. In the latter respect it suffered slightly from comparison. The former disadvantage, however, it fully overcame. It was dramatic and varied enough to hold the attention, and although it showed signs of inferior genius, portions of it, especially the dance of the Dryads, and the spirited, wild hunt, were remarkably good...