Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stands in immediate relation with his God. Once called Musionists, the mystics through Emerson's influence came to be called transcendentalists. Among their number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature of mysticism...
With Dostoyevsky the artist is screened by the thinker and the moralist. He was an active worker for the establishment of Christian principles of love and equality of men. His doctrine was embraced in the one sentence, "Every man is a sinner against every other...
Starting from the same point of individual self-improvement, Tolstoy deprecates collectivity as injurious to self-improvement. The artist and the thinker cohabitate as rivals in his work. Tolstoy during his life has grown to his fullest fame. His "War and Peace" is accepted as a great work by all nations. The basis of his work is non-resistance to evil...
...soul alone with God. He arose to considerable eminence in Germany and held various offices in his religious order. These offices were taken away from him owing to his Pantheistic views, and on his appeal to the Pope, he was excommunicated. He died about the year 1327. As a thinker, he was too independent for his time, but he was the leader who founded all the later mystic beliefs...
Professor C. A. Briggs of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, who will preach at Appleton Chapel tomorrow night, is a man who will appeal strongly to Harvard men. A liberal but reverent thinker himself, he has the teacher's power of expressing his thoughts clearly and forcibly to others...