Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look, said he, back upon the life of the ancient Venetians and Florentines in the times of their great progress in art we are apt to think of their life as particularly bright; perhaps even more so than our own. But they were greatly influenced by the Greeks and if we examine all art we find it more or less dependent upon the Greeks. The great features of the Greeks were simplicity, truth and beauty. And to this they added the ability to express the inward thought in visible form. We have more or less lost the spirit...
...lecture in Sever 11, on the proposed excavation of Delphi under the direction of the Archaeological Institute of America. Less than a year ago Professor Norton delivered in the same place an address, in which, after making mention of the past and present aspect of the site of the ancient temple of Delphi, he gave some account of the attitude of the Greek government toward the American proposal to undertake investigation on Greek soil. Since that time matters have been gradually maturing. After some negotiation the Greek government conceded to the Institute the privilege of excavating the ancient oracle, provided...
...making for the excavation of Delphi and its surroundings under the direction of American scholars and these excavations, if successful, will go far toward proving America's claim to scholarly recognition. No more fruitful field certainly could have been chosen for the initial work than the site of ancient Delphi so replete with the historic associations of all Greece, and the results there attained cannot fail to be a great addition to classical learning. It is a just matter of pride to us as Harvard men, also, that the project now started is largely in the hands of Harvard graduates...
...listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality has led to many editions by Brahmins who desired to express their own ideas, and has made of what must originally have been a most noble and grand monument of ancient literature, a mass of tedious episodes. Even though it has been increased and added to, it is still the greatest work in oriental literature...
...First, the existence of an eternal soul of souls; second, the invisible emanations from the soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss or joy. Good authorities state that the Hindoo religion is dark and despairing, but this is not so. For this pessimistic idea springs not from despair but from disdain. In the spirit...