Word: european
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...South American states constitute a convenient market for the United States and are our natural consumers. (a) The United States is nearer South America than the European markets, and South America would therefore trade with us on better terms. (b) All South American States are strongly inclined to a Republican form of goverment and therefore are more insympathy with our country than with monarchies, and commercial intercourse is natural...
...second epoch groups itself about 1200. The European nations were then settled in almost the same bounds as today; The Catholic religion was established, and the feudal system evolved order out of the social chaos. Under the union of the papacy and the empire men as men did not exist; there was no such thing as individual liberty; a man existed only as a member of a body. And yet it was through these institutions that the nations breathed their sincerest faith and highest aspirations. The great epic of this period is the Nioelungen Leid, and it is as characteristic...
...whole French system of education. The Athenian school is a centre from which men may start in their researches, and Athens itself has many advantages as a place for a school. The climate is good for at least eight months in the year, all the comforts of any European capital can be got there, the students are surroueded by classical objects, and it is a centre for students of other nations, thus bringing together a large number of intellectual men. Great advances have been made in excavations the past few years and Athens grows more and more sugg stive...
...work than in the winter. The most interesting piece of news from this department is the generous gift of $50,000, by Miss C. W. Bruce, of New York, for a photographic telescope. The instrument will be made with a double lens, a new form not yet adopted by European astronomers, but considered by Professor Pickering far superior to single lens telescopes. It will have an aperture of twenty-four inches. Its focal length will be short, and consequently it will include a large area of the sky at once, and will also obtain images of very faint stars...
What Professor Lumholtz had to say of the natives themselves was, however, the most instructive part of the talk. He is the only European who has ever made this people a study. They are unquestionably the lowest of the human race in the scale of civilization; everything connected with their life proves this. The language is very simple, the vocabulary being extremely limited: there are no general words, as the natives do not make the simplest generalization; whole ideas are expressed by single words, and everything marks a primitive phase of human life. This is even more clearly shown...