Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor N. S. Shaler is to deliver the seventh course of Winkley lectures at the Andover Theological Seminary, beginning Dec. 3. Subject, Modern Science and Religious Beliefs...
...Modern science is far advanced and, indeed, it has been studied by some men for its own sake, and Romanticism, which was once so flourishing, gradually died out. Men came to realize more and more a truth which Butler signalized by saying that things are what they are; things will be what they will be and that it is folly to be deceived into thinking otherwise. But as Romanticism disappeared, a new power was rising and it was ready when the former was gone, to fill its place. This new star was science. Men devoted their lives...
...intellectual world is the wish of broad-minded men of the present day. As organic development has been achieved in the exact sciences so are its beneficial effects needed in the less tangible divisions. An organism of culture, in other words is, or should be, the goal of modern advances in all branches of knowledge. In seeking the best methods for reaching such an end, we instinctively look at the past, in order to profit by its errors and success. And we find, at last, that the middle ages were truly times of origin, since they give us the virtual...
Relation of the Middle Ages to Modern Life and Literature. III. The Aim and Method of Mediaeval Studies in the Present. Lecture. Professor March. Sever...
Relation of the Middle Ages to Modern Life and Literature. III. The Aim and Method of Mediaeval Studies in the Present. Lecture. Professor March. Sever...