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Gloomier and Gloomier. In a recent London book called The Coming Renaissance 14 British and two American writers all strike, in differing degrees, a hopeful note. One comments on the approach of church union in America; another on the new interest in education and the rebirth of religious discussion; a third on the interest in upbuilding the health of the human race. To the various writers (two of whom are women, five University professors, three bishops, two canons and two clergymen), these signs indicate another Renaissance age in religion. But to W. R. Inge, " gloomy Dean " of St. Paul...
Hamilton Fish, Jr. At the rebirth of Montenegrin autonomy he will stand god-father...
...wall and look about. To meet these irresistible intruders on anything like even terms, China found herself obliged to jump over a good many centuries into the current of modern ways. Out of pure generosity the United States decided not to take advantage of the naivete of her rebirth and therefore remitted ten of the twenty-five millions due to her as Boxer indemnity. This has proved to be profitable altruism, for since then America and American people have stood highest in the esteem of the Chinaman. And now the foresighted British, taking a lead out of our book, have...
...rubbish, inpinges upon the rubbish of the up-to-date builder of twenty-six centuries gone; he finds the pieces of Tirhaka and Tanut-Amon, reconstitutes them with care, and promotes them to the chiefest honor among the denizens of Napata. Could there be a more romantic rebirth than that...
...Union. In every classroom one becomes immediately connections of an atmosphere of strong, independent thought, of a critical, analytical spirit of challenge, of an almost self-assertive pride of unshackled, fearless, intellectual freedom. The effect of this atmosphere is of course most stimulating. Many a man owes his intellectual rebirth to this very spirit of individualism...