Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...assimilate it with ourselves. Wordsworth said that "Poetry was violent emotion remembered in tranquility," that is, when it was no longer the motive but the passive material of thought; and acquirement, then, first becomes knowledge when it is not much a property of memory as a quality of the intellect, making a part of the judgment rather than serving to rectify...
...Adam. The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature will defy fortune and outlive calamity. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated. "Books," says Wordsworth, "are a real world," and he was thinking, doubtless, of such books as are not merely the triumphs of pure intellect, however supreme, but of those in which intellect infused with the sense of beauty aims rather to produce delight than conviction, or, if conviction, then through intuition rather than formal logic, and, leaving what Donne wisely calls...
...cunning that prompts the actions of the politician and the business man, while it is eagerly striven for by many, brings with it contention. Many pursue knowledge, but the enlightenment of the intellect does little to secure the happiness of men. Science tries in vain to solve these problems of life upon which our happiness is dependent. Science must look to a higher power in order to solve them...
...first time since the fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating as fast in morals. Every virtue was counterbalanced by some vice. It was at the same time the best and the worst of ages...
...should put his belief to the test at times, to see if it satisfies his ideas. Religious truth is unlike all other truths. A mathematical truth is proved by a set of fixed rules. Legal or historical truths are governed only by hearsay. Religious truth, however, is proved by intellect and reasoning. Its foundation is in its appeal to our sentiment of love. It springs from the best there is in us. Our hearts and souls, alone, can satisfy us of its truth...