Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Royce delivered his fourth lecture on Modern Thinkers in Sanders Theatre last night before a large audience. The subject was Kant. The many-sidedness of Kant's thought, the lecturer said, has in the first place made the difficulty of completely understanding him so enormous that the reading of the "Critique of Pure Reason" has become a sort of liberal profession in Germany. The age in which Kant lived was ripe for the "Critique" In twenty-five years it so thoroughly won over to metaphysics a nation previously little given to philosophy that Heine said; "God has given France...
Representative Men and Issues of Modern Philosophy, Lecture IV: Kant. Professor Royce. Sanders Theatre...
...come suddenly, but it is a growth; it grew by a series of revisions. In the Anglo-Saxon times large parts of the Bible were translated into the three dialects that the language was divided into in England. Wickliffe, who made the first translation in what may be called modern times, translated into the Midland dialect, the dialect of Chaucer. Others helped him in the task, but he probably translated most of the New Testament; and it was finished in 1384. Tyndale's translation was the next, and his was the result of the Reformation. His translation was very thorough...
Representative Men and Issues of Modern Philosophy, Lecture IV: Kant. Professor Royce. Sanders Theatre...
...Charles Turner; a very amusing story called "After Muskalonge and wall-eyed Pike," by K. D. Peterson, describing fishing adventures in Wisconsin. The first of a series of articles on wrestling is contributed by E. Hitchcock, Jr. The writer tells us something of the similarity of ancient and modern wrestling which is quite instructive. Another instructive article on "Women and their Cameras" is by Margaret Bisland. We are told how a woman can begin and perfect herself in photography and how many of them have done so. Athletics in Washington, by Herbert Janvrin Browne, is a useful contribution of some...