Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole. To this tendency of the German towards specialization is due the rise of comparative history, comparative art, religion, philology, jurisprudence, etc. In philosophy also the German has done noble work; he treats it psychologically, and not as the Greek did, auto-logically. He looks into the conditions of human knowing, and reaches the conclusion that reason is all-important. In music we find Beethoven and his followers getting at the divine part of music. By carrying music up to double counterpoint, they have made it a most effective vehicle for the portrayal of human feelings...
...This is the work which the Hampton Institute is doing. But there are other influences which have been busy working the same great evolution. The struggle which the Negro has had to gain the franchise has had great educational influence upon him, and has developed him politically and socially. Human nature has asserted itself and the black vote is slowly dividing; out of these political distinctions, social ones are growing. Then, too, the contact of the Negro with the white races has furnished reconstructive forces which have done much in developing the Negro character. An important influence of the education...
...Warren's story, "A Bit of Official Tragedy," is unlike most of the articles contributed to the Monthly, but it is worthy of space in the magazine. It is a serious story of human life. The writer depicts with great sincerity the awful influence disappointments and Jesertion may exert upon human passion. The tale is told in a simple manner and the artistic effect is increased by a careful avoidance of all vulgarity...
...literature had almost disappeared from the world. There existed, however, among the roving tribes of Arabia, a lyric poetry of great excellence. War, love and hunting furnished the theme but there was no study of nature for its own sake. Sconery was introduced only as an appendage to human action. The elegance of diction and the happy flow of language showed the work of many generations of poets. There was, however, no unity of conception, and the poems were merely a string of aneedotes without beginning or end. The longer poems were composed in forms regulated by strict rules...
...utmost capacity, last evening, by a congregation who came to hear the Rev. Brooke Herford preach. He took as his subject the sacredness of law, and selected the text from the eighteenth verse of Psalm CXIX. He said that the sacredness of law was observable, primarily, in human affairs. All earthy conditions submit to law, else chaos and confusion ensue. Hence we should render a willing loyalty. Dr. Herford said that freedom was overdone in this country because there is so little reverence for law as law. Many yield to authority since they know the law will be enforced...