Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasant weather of yesterday called out one of the largest attendances of the year at the vesper service. Dr. Hale occupied the pulpit and was assisted in the service by Dr. F. G. Peabody. Dr. Hale spoke of the purposes for which human beings are sent into the world and of the rewards which follow the fulfillment of those purposes. The world is a training school for the enlargement of our lives. A higher level of existence is promised to all sorts and conditions of men if they will yield obedience to the laws which God has established...
...places of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." The striking comparisons of the Psalm were enlarged upon by the speaker. Evil is likened to a snare. As the hare speeding along its accustomed path is caught suddenly in the noose of the hunter, so human beings are assailed unawares through their desires and habits by temptations of every kind Again, evil is like a pestilence. Society is filled with moral corruption so that it is a miracle if any escape the disease. Finally, evil is like the arrow of human unmercifulness. Men send this arrow...
...think of his literary style, his spirit is genuine. It is said that the modern spirit is hostile to art and that the tyranny of science drives poetry out of existence. But poetry is based on realism, and the poet should take the cold facts of science and humanize them. Human sentiment should be substituted for the critical verse now in vogue. The human mind has in this century again burst its bonds, as it did just before the Renaissance. It cannot be possible that the "almighty dollar" is to be the only issue from this wonderful new world. Positive...
...Story," by the same writer, is an article which embodies some startling ideas. It is a description of a Harvard's man's attempt to conjure up a suitable plot for a story. Whether he succeeds or not is left for the reader to judge. A human being with such a prolific imagination would have the making of a Rider Haggard. The story is very brightly and interestingly told and has the merit of singular originality...
...claims to nurture and development-aided by the exact methods of modern science and guided not by the lamp of observation alone but also by the light of physiological knowledge, will eradicate the seeds and blot out the remaining marks of mediaeval barbarism, and equip the members of the human family for the exigencies of the campaign of life and the demands of civilization...