Word: loved
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most striking articles in the current Atlantic are the timely contributions on Whittier. Prof. George Edward Woodbury's essay on the dead poet is perhaps the best that has yet appeared. It is written in a spirit of friendliness - even of love we may say - and is very appreciative. "The life of Whittier," he says, "affects us rather as singularly fortunate in the completeness with which he was able to do his whole duty, to possess his soul, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Lovers of New England will cherish his memory as that...
...became pervaded with it. At that time It was one of these knights, William the IX., a type of manly prowess, chivalrous not as yet hardened into caste, and the knights were fit teachers of the people too, Christian as ceticism and feudal heartlessness had made both marriage and love little esteemed among the people. Marriage was tolerated only as a necessary evil, and love was decried as the snare of the devil. Against such sentiments the finer natures of both sexes cried out, and the troubadours voiced this...
They did indeed reduce both courtesy and love to a fantastic code and concerned themselves with questions whose solutions were of no value, but back of all this ill-balanced effort there lay a spirit of gentle relations between all men and women that has made a profound impression on succeeding ages...
...right? Economics is like a great mechanism, but it must get its motive power from the moral sentiment of the people. Science and sentiment join hands, - both are absolutely essential. Science without sentiment makes a man hard-hearted; sentiment without science makes a man soft-hearted. The influence of love must temper the reign...
...needs no ritual or dogma. The University offers a field for the training of a man in this control of flesh and spirit. We develope our bodies enough but perhaps pay too little attention to the exercise of our spiritual natures. Any exercise which enlarges faith, hope or love, is a spiritual exercise...