Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is the climax of Newman's thought as it is the end of all wisdom, - to know the living and the true God. It is the supreme triumph of his intellect, to will away the world and stand in the presence of his Creator. It is this singleness of purpose that gives to his personality its marvellous power over men, - the power of one who sees farther and clearer, whose life is wrapped up in the divine, whose meditations are of the Eternal. For it is the personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought...
...again in 1880, Dr. Porter supervised the revision of Webster's Dictionary. He was the author of the celebrated book on "The Human Intellect," published in 1868 which has become an accepted text-book in many American colleges. He also wrote a large number of metaphysical works...
Christ makes his appeal to something besides intellect. His ultimate essential appeal to the man within the man, the spiritual man, conscience. An intellectual religion would leave the spirit hungry, Nothing diviner than Christ's religion has ever been seen or heard of. Nor need we fear sincere intellectual criticism; but ever dread intellectual indolence and apathy...
...should bring to the consideration of religion every part of ourselves, not the intellect only. We should judge always by that which is highest, and that is Christ Signs, wonders, and excitements we need them not. We have not seen but have felt that Christ was the eternal words of life, and that He is the Holy...
...Njal of the Saga is a man in intellectual stature above his age and fellows. His was too great a nature, too clear and vigorous an intellect for the Asa teachings entirely to satisfy. The ruins of Njal's hall remain, and for the Icelander only the Thiny-fields, the site of the great moots of the commonwealth, surpass Hlitharendi (end of slope) Gunnar's home, and Bergthorshool (Bergthor's hill) Njal's home in richness of associations...