Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...society had adapted itself to the conditions of feudalism. This had refinement, amorous mind, and poetical instinct, who became the first troubadour. It is to these troubadours, that all morals and all art of the present day owe a great debt...
...realization that each person is only an atom in society and must find his place in its organism. With this thought noted in the minds of the people, mariage is secure, for it rests, not so much on the strictness of law, as on the tradition of reverence and instinct of respect with which people regard it. Such feeling is destroyed no more surely by city-living, with its drifting home-life or even absolute homelessness, than on the ostentation of the luxurious rich, in their studied contempt of simple home duties and their craving for a society life founded...
...justice as well as of courtesy, the college ought to extend as warm a welcome as possible to the visiting teams and applaud their good plays. This is the only gentlemanly way in which to enter into sport, and it is a custom which should prevail as if by instinct in every branch of Harvard athletics. In the past, there has been lurking an unfortunate tendency to look upon opposing teams as enemies, who should be downed by any fair means, and whose good points had absolutely no claim for recognition from Harvard men. Anyone with an instant's reflection...
...February number of the Forum, Professor Francis G. Peabody contributes a thoughtful article on "A Case of Good City Government." Dresden is the model which is described. The first instinct of an American citizen is to act; the first instinct of a German citizen is to obey and as far as concerns the essentials of good city government, one feels that in the best German cities one has the most substantial administration of the world. The German method offers a contrast to that of the United States since the former is government for the sake of the city...
Since the Renaissance there have been four principal motives for search and study of medeaeval ideals. First the humanist desire to perfect the literary style of the day. Second the patriotic instinct regarding a country's past. Third, the fancifal interest in Chivalry of the Romantic movement, and fourth the desire of jurists to trace the development of law. Beside these dilletantiism led to the revival of the trouvier and troubadours...