Word: moralists
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Graduate Club in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House last night. Professor Henry Van Dyke of Princeton delivered a very interesting lecture, on "Robert Louis Stevenson." Professor Van Dyke spoke of Stevenson as a stylist, a constructor of stories and as a moralist. He mentioned Stevenson's early ambition to become a writer and the desperate real with which he worked towards that end. "The lesson of Stevenson's life," he said, "is that it is a fine thing to be brave." Professor Van Dyke, in speaking of the precision in the choice of words which...
Alexandre Dumas fils, (1824-1895), owed the first success of his celebrity to "La Dame aux Camelias", and "Question d'Argent." As Augier, although in a different way, he is especially a moralist and his attacks are directed against the vices of his time. "Le Fils Natural" and "Le Pere Predigue" are the two sides of one same social thesis. He also laughs at ill matched marriages. The aim of Dumas in to rebuild Society by means of the family, and the family, by means of love. He declared that always and everywhere he aimed at an "ideal of love...
...reissued in this country by MacMillan Company. After the author's Introduction comes the sketch of the life of Shaftesbury, written by his son. The letters, that follow, are of considerable literary and historical value, helping, as they do, to build up a pleasing impression of the Queen Anne Moralist, as well as throwing light upon an interesting period of English history. The chief value of the publication, however, centers in the Philosophical Regimen, a new presentation of Stoic philosophy. In speaking of its author, Dr. Rand writes that he is the greatest stoic since the days of Epictetus...