Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Molpe" says Professor Gilbert Murray, "is the fountain-head of poetry in the European world." This ancient form of nature-worship, long antidating in Greece the period known as the Heroic Age, and combining in its expression in singing and dancing the worship of the aesthetic as well as that of the material, is so to speak, the primitive poetry of all European people at least, and as such underlies their later literature...
Chapman was followed by J. F. Barnes '27, who pointed out the danger of the individual becoming a stereotyped human being cast in a mould of governmental regulation. He attacked the American worship of majority rule, and declared that it led to the creation of a nation of beings in whom the spark of individuality was stifled...
This afternoon, Professor Gilbert Murray will offer an opportunity for cultural research rarely given to students. At 4.30 o'clock in the Common Room of Straus Hall, he will give an informal talk on the subjects of his last two lectures: The Molpe, "the worship of the spirit of beauty", and The Drama, and will discuss questions connected with these...
...second lecture, on "The Molpe," Professor Murray touched on the Greek ritual of song and dance, which went under the name of "molpe," and which he defined as worship of this spirit of beauty. The ecstasy to which contemplation of this spirit raised the worshippers was such that mere words were too weak to express it, and movement was the natural means sought as a vent for the emotions...
...West who still are old-fashioned and superstitious enough to follow anything that smacks of religion are on the wrong road. We should turn rather from Christ to Abou Ben Adhem, who did not love God but rather his fellow men. For when our worship of Mammon has filled our purses to satiety we turn not to fighting the Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay...