Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Constituents of a General Idea: The Relations of Feeling, Will, and Intellect...
...physical world has become greater. His history is strictly along the lines of the development of his power. At first, the great strange forces of nature, which were inexplicable to him, he deified and worshipped. But latter, by subduing these, he was able to develop the capacity of his intellect. Man has become so bewildered by recent inventions that he has said that the limit of his power has been reached; but the limit of his power has not yet been reached nor will it ever be reached-for it is undoubtedly infinite...
...instilled into his mind and great strides in the intellectual side of his nature have been made. He has discovered that knowledge is power until now education has become a household word. He has learned that goodness is also power and that it is even a greater power than intellect...
Renan's idea of God was that the highest there is in man is in itself God, and this is expressed in the beautiful. Thus God is an attribute of man, and therefore man must strive for perfection, to be attained through the intellect. Renan said that prayer is not needed...
...while the real education of the college is built upon its magnificent muscular development, education in its best sense mean that the intellect is trained so that it can be exercised by its owner - that it has ideas, that it can express its ideas lucidly n any subject that may come before...