Word: vision
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Then came Manfred, Tasso and several songs inspired by friendship for Shelley and his exile. In Venice were written Don Juan; then his dramas, none of them masterpieces, and the Vision of Justice, which caused great consternation. Don Juan is a picture of the world as Byron saw it; he had drunk the cup of pleasure and had found all vanitus vanitatum...
...called Census of Hallucinations, of which the results must be communicated in the summer of 1892 to the International Congress of Experimental Psychology, which then meets in England. The object of the Census is to find what proportion of persons in the community have seen a vision, heard a voice, or felt a touch when no one was physically present to account for the phenomenon. Incidentally a large amount of material for the comparative study of hallucinations and apparitions is swept in. I have now the answers "yes" or "no" from upwards of 5,000 persons, and accounts...
...Christ who strengthened me." Paul does not seem to imply that he is miraculously gifted with strength of mind and purpose but simply that an entire dependence on Christ is strength of itself although separate from any tangible manifestation of assistance. Paul saw Christ in his dreams and the vision always helped him, but even these appearances probably came to him because he thought of his divine leader so often, and always as a leader who was anxious to aid and comfort...
These words came to the prophet in the first great hour of vision. In it he found that God does not want a grovelling spirit in his worshipers. To the old Hebrews God seemed to be invested with all sorts of awful surroundings-vivid sunset colors and fearful thunder-all of which seems strange to us now. Nevertheless our ideas of the Creator are such that the invitation to stand "up on the feet" before Him does not come amiss...
...great truth of the old vision is that the secret of a righteous life is to stand up. We teach our children to stand instead of leaning and lolling about, not only because it looks better to stand unsupported but because the habit carries a moral lesson. The first thing a recruit is taught to do is to stand straigt, no for looks but because the act of so standing conveys the idea of discipline. And for centuries the word in our language which is the typical expression fro absolute honesty has been uprightness...