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Christ opens to us a vista of an eternal life, a life in the living God. Who comes to mutilate life is a thief and a robber...
...Becket was murdered by the knights was shown. A tablet on the wall commemorates his life and death and a small square stone marks the very spot where he is said to have fallen, The naves of this cathedral are long and high and the view showing the vista between the rows of high columns was very striking...
...affections are set in the right way. Examples are before us constantly of men who have had this resurrection-men pure, and leading lives of courage and usefulness. We may in a way understand the nobleness of their lives, but we cannot really know the broadness of the vista which opens before them if we be not ourselves alive. If we are to understand the immortality of the soul we must have it. And after attaining it, we must light others to this way of life, this undying and eternal existence...
...will attack "muckerism" at Yale just as severely as we do at Harvard, or whenever it comes in contact with us; and reconsideration's or retractions coming weeks after the trouble complained of, will be viewed through the vista which time accords, and consequently cannot have the weight of immediate denial. Glad as we should be to consider the position of the News tenable, we cannot do so, nor can we unite with it in considering the reported words of the Yale captain as "a petty matter." At Harvard such a thing would be called not petty but gigantic boorishness...
...first the Italians were too bewildered by the boundless vista of antiquity which opened upon them to consider what was the special feature in it which attracted them. But gradually they found that what they cared for most in the ancient masterpieces was the perfection of their form. Henceforth they studied them for their form alone. Not for their matter. There were exceptions, of course, such as Laurentius Valla, Polilian, Pontanus, Marullus, Ficino, and his fellow Platonists, "amiable browsers in the Medicean park," as George Eliot calls them; but, on the whole, the great aim of Italian scholars...