Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...learned is not to be called knowledge. It continues for a good while yet a foreign substance in the mind and becomes a pearl only by dint of that fretting which proves its alienate, and which compels us to coat it with the substance of our own life and thought and so to assimilate it with ourselves. Wordsworth said that "Poetry was violent emotion remembered in tranquility," that is, when it was no longer the motive but the passive material of thought; and acquirement, then, first becomes knowledge when it is not much a property of memory as a quality...
...best give the idea of what the peculiar power which lies in style is,- Pindar, Virgil, Dante, Milton. An example of the peculiar effect which these poets produce, you can hardly give from German poetry. Examples enough you can give from German poetry of the effect produced by genius, thought, and feeling expressing themselves in clear language, simple language, passionate language, eloquent language, with harmony and melody; but not of the peculiar effect exercised by eminent power of style. Every reader of Dante can at once call to mind what the peculiar effect I mean is; I spoke...
...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...
...there are about 2500 miles of overhead wires, and somewhat over 800 miles of underground wires. Many of these are very heavily charged with electric currents of high tension. The are light wires and the electric car feeders have the highest tension and are exceedingly dangerous. It is often thought that a shock can not be received from a single wire, but this is a mistake, for the gound is thoroughly charged with the current from the underground wires, and when contact is made with the overhead wire by a person standing on the ground the circuit is joined...
...April number of the Forum is the first of a series of articles on universities and colleges of the United States. Professor G. Stanley Hall, who contributed the present article says, among other things: "Of our 139 self-styled universities, Professor Bryce thought that seven or eight or, at most, twelve, deserved the term, and Professor Von Holst finds only 'a torso of a university' in the whole country. At any rate we do not meet the demand, or 411 American students would not be found, as they were last year, in the nine Prussian universities...