Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next volume in Macmillan's Series of Economic Classes will be a translation of Turgot's "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches" (1770), by the editor of the series, Professor W. J. Ashley, of Harvard. This book is a brief and lucid statement of the doctrines of those writers who are regarded the creators of modern political economy. Hitherto it has been accessible only in a translation of 1793 which has been discovered to be inaccurate...
Nothing can be better in its way than the style in which Goethe there presents his thought, but it is the style of prose as much as of poetry; it is lucid, harmonious, earnest, eloquent, but it has not received that peculiar kneading, heightening, and recasting which is observable in the style of the passage from Milton,- a style which seems to have for its cause a certain pressure of emotion, and an ever-surging, yet bridled, excitement in the poet, giving a special intensity to his way of delivering himself. In poetical races and epochs this turn for style...
...there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which is, after all, the highest result of all education. For what we want is not learning, but knowledge; that is, the power...
...first speaker was Mr. Chadwick, L. S. He dwelt chiefly on the historical side of communism, and entered particularly into details, in recounting the various religious attempts at communistic settlements. He was followed by Mr. Young, who advocated the Bellamy idea, and gave a very lucid explanation of it. Mr. Young was very seathing when showing up the defects of the wage system...
...importance of the subject warranted a larger audience than assembled in Sever 11 last night. Professor White, for the Athletic Committee, gave a most lucid and interesting history of the management of athletics at Harvard, and explained with admirable clearness the position at present held by the committee of which he is chairman...