Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Modern science is far advanced and, indeed, it has been studied by some men for its own sake, and Romanticism, which was once so flourishing, gradually died out. Men came to realize more and more a truth which Butler signalized by saying that things are what they are; things will be what they will be and that it is folly to be deceived into thinking otherwise. But as Romanticism disappeared, a new power was rising and it was ready when the former was gone, to fill its place. This new star was science. Men devoted their lives...
...seductive love-sonnets. After much of this sort of thing, the poet's wife writes to her unknown admirer that she loves her husband and is faithful to him and hates the "namby-tamby verses which have been sent her. Dr. Jekyll, the husband, is complacent on learning the truth; but Mr. Hyde, the poet, is frantic with rage at the lack of appreciation of his poetical power. The story is told cleverly...
What will be the outcome of the matter it is difficult to predict though doubtless all such discussion is in the eventual interests of truth...
...farce. If you believe in Christ he will lift you out of doubt. It is a supernatural force, and all attempts to account for Him naturally have failed. Other great men have stood in clusters of lesser men, Christ stands in a vast solitude. Christ is sinless, Christ is truth. In answer to the three great questions "Is there a God, a soul, a future life," he without doubting speaks to the soul and says "He that has seen me has seen the Father," and dying told his disciples that He went to prepare a place for them...
...towards Ibsen is only an illustration of that principle which is as old as life - the principle of self preservation, and further that "the cry that Ibsen is treading upon dangerous ground, the old cry of pitch and defilement, of forbidden subject, gives expression to that fear of unpleasant truth, that effeminate shrinking from all that is dark and evil which is characteristic of buoyant optimism...