Word: seer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clouds of gloom, however, rays of optimism appear. The man who tells us the war is going to end in six months will now misinform us for a few weeks, and thereby satisfy his prophetic instincts. Ground for encouragement does exist, nevertheless, not on the tongue of the seer, but on Flanders mud, Allied union and American progress. As Englishmen regain France's lost territory, they drive from our minds the trenches in Italy. In the attempt to create an allied general staff we see an endeavor for more efficient co-operation. While labor tends to eliminate its striking habits...
...mere climber, he must have one look at the vegetation, another at the ground, and another at the vistas about him. If he fails to appreciate any of these three realities about him, he may still remain a good geologist, or a good botanist, or a good seer; but he is certainly missing a great deal which if he could get he would make his life fuller, his science deeper, his poetry fine. In other words, he would thus contribute more towards completing his humanity...
Theodore William Richards, a chemist who has weighed the atoms in his balance; an explorer to whom the elements of the universe have told their secret; a modest seer of things invisible...