Word: traces
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...life. So, again and again, periods of imaginative creation in other nations have been prefaced by the study of things Spanish. The reason for this is largely the feeling that Spain and the Spanish character are remarkably rich in color and in romantic interest. Accordingly, we have today to trace the beginnings of the type of culture which has produced this impression on the modern world...
...time, he said, is scientific study of ethics. Morality is today challenged on every hand. Nothing stands free from the assault of criticism. To maintain our civilization, we must have a science of right conduct and good character. We might have a science of morality which would trace the facts of our moral life, and yet not touch on morality, or Heaven, or God. It is the consideration of this moral life, which will advance ethics. More than discovering the character of good and evil, we must discover our own life character, and the secrets in the development...
...viceroy, no man ever showed less capacity than Columbus. While he talked a great deal in Spain about making converts of the poor souls, yet it is to him that we trace the Spanish law which allowed every colonist to exercise the vilest absolute power over as many natives as his means and rank entitled him to hold...
...this chapter the author has given at some length his own conception of Miss Austen,-which might be summed up in a few lines. While she "may not have seen so far into the deeps of motive as some of her successors, and may not have been able to trace the influence of circumstance upon character with as unerring skill, yet within her range-a range too, that is much wider than her superficial readers suspect-she has no equal...
...been four principal motives for search and study of medeaeval ideals. First the humanist desire to perfect the literary style of the day. Second the patriotic instinct regarding a country's past. Third, the fancifal interest in Chivalry of the Romantic movement, and fourth the desire of jurists to trace the development of law. Beside these dilletantiism led to the revival of the trouvier and troubadours...