Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...treat them as unrelated individuals, but takes the work of each as a special medium through which to see American character. The great fault of previous looks on American literature has been that they have over-estimated the merits of American authors. Professor Wendell, though thoroughly American in spirit, is almost too reluctant in his praise of our best literature...
...results, have nowhere else been so carefully studied. On the other hand, Professor Wendell fails to understand Thoreau and Emerson. Grouping Thoreau with Alcott under the lesser men of Concord is clearly a lapse of judgment. The subject of transcendentalism is also handied in a somewhat superficial manner. The spirit of Emerson is also missed, perhaps because of over-emphasis on the "Yankee" element in Emerson. Mr. John J. Chapman is, on the whole, a surer critic of the Concord prophet...
...grouping of the authors, the large relations of individuals to each other and to historical movements--for example, the relations of Whittier and Whitman to the Civil war--the geographical divisions, which one feels mark real divisions of throughout; the total impression of the American spirit which the book leaves with one, make it a very notable study of American life and letters...
...movement sixty years ago, that Christianity should study to better the economic and social conditions of great bodies of men, considered as wholes, is growing. All true philanthropy belongs to Christianity, because all movements that stimulate social progress are the working out, whether directly or indirectly, of Christ's spirit in the world...
...necessary to understand in the first place the real meanings of the three terms "the Kingdom of God," "the Church," and "the Church System." Wherever the spirit of God is present and is working superior to other influences, there is the Kingdom of God. It is born in the worship of the individual soul, and works out in active service for society. Every great social movement for good is a part and a manifestation of the Kingdom of God among...