Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...social breeding are synonymous with their name, Fantast, and who are extremely eager to take up the latest arrival in fashion from Paris. Two old gentlemen of the town are continually playing practical jokes which would now be regarded as social errors rather than as marks of a cultivated intellect. The Londoner, a French barber, launches into the society in the disguise of a French count and becomes the social lion of the moment. He succeeds in winning the hand of the "younger lady of culture," and the complications which ensue are most amusing and possibly not out of date...
...university's most valuable attributes and emphasized the importance of knowing her great men and famous localities, and of recognizing the most truly characteristic and essential traits of the institution. With that spirit of "intellectual austerity" in mind, that love of the things of the intellect for their own sake and of truth for truth's sake, one is not likely to be deceived by jingoistic loyalty or by the shortsighted ideals of a small company of men. For the lasting tradition that should permeate all work affords a perspective, and infuses all work with significance, making it the symbol...
...address to the University of Edinburgh to review the message of that sage. "In books lies the soul of the whole past time," "Universal history is at bottom the history of the Great Men who have worked here." "Silence is the eternal duty of men." "The man of intellect at the top of affairs: this is the aim of all constitutions and revolutions." After sounding these ringing notes about Books, Heroes, Silence, and The Young Man, Carlyle bids us "be of hope...
...Socialism is to become the dominant idea of civilization, it will have to be supported by both intellect and force," maintained Mr. Powys. It belongs to the students to furnish the ideas in the revolution to reconcile the capitalists and the wage-earners...
...scientific work and from this he obtains the strongest stimulus. Closely connected with this is the slight value attached to examinations in German universities. Continually is it impressed upon the minds of the students that they should work not for the examinations but for the expansion of their own intellect...