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...Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531), Swiss Reformer, taught that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was merely a memorial service with no mystic significance...
...small card in a mailbox in Converse Chemical Laboratory reads, "Please send Professor Conant's mail to University Hall." This should quell the anxiety of those who fear President Conant is letting the University go to pot while he sits in his laboratory in mystic contemplation of test-tubes...
...Unbeliever Goes to Church," by Norman Hapgood, is, as the title presages, merely an account of the spiritual release of one man. It is rather vague because it tries simultaneously to show how a person can be both a eligious mystic and an unbeliever, and what the future of the Church is to become of the ideas are reminiscent of Macterlinck's essay on Emerson, others all up the image of an on-the-fence minister trying to be liberal and let the young 'uns have their game of golf on Sunday. For all its erraticism, the article will strike...
...dream the metamorphosis of Romanticism transformed the young writers of Germany. As in a dream they responded to the mystic inspiration of Fichte, uniting in the quest for the blue flower, seeking the impalpable of the ideal. Friedrich Schlegel, opium-wafted Buddha, contemplated the concentric circles of an impenetrably intricate philosophy. August Wilhelm Schlegel, poseur, literateur, bon-viveur, set forth to win poetic glory, is remembered for his translation of Shakespeare. Ludwig Tieck's majestic, melancholy search for the essence of fairyland beauty produced an impossible, capricious comedy, "Puss in Boots." Kleist awakened from his dream of tearing from Goethe...
...Royal Academy Exhibition in London, peering connoisseurs were puzzled but incurious to observe on some of the pictures the mystic initials P.R.B. Gradually the secret leaked (or was given) out: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was arming for Art's sake, preparing to rescue her from her official keepers. They called themselves Pre-Raphaelites because they believed that not since Raphael's day had sincerity and art been candid friends. Most promising painter of the group was facile John Everett Millais; most agonizingly honest, William Holman Hunt; but the most dynamic personality and the acknowledged leader was one Charles...