Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...know of what I speak. This is due to a variety of causes, the chief of which is the egotism of the human animal itself. But I can tell you for your comfort that the chief cure for it is to interest yourself, to lose yourself, in some issue not personal to yourself--in another man's trouble or, preferably, another man's joy. But if the dark hour does not vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there...
...carried away by the first rush of the great game of life. That is expecting you to be more than human. But I do ask you, after the heat of the game, that you draw breath and watch your fellows for a while. Sooner or later you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price...
Professor Zueblin pointed out first that the great trouble of our modern life is its fragmentary character. To secure a wholeness of life is to satisfy the six great human wants mentioned last time: wealth, health, sociability, taste, knowledge, and righteousness. The best way to view how the state synthesizes these is to observe how their opposites flourish within its domain...
...Chicago, and a trustee of Northwestern University, with the purpose "to stimulate scientific research of the highest type and bring the results before the students and friends of Northwestern University, and, through them, to all the world." By scientific research, is meant "scholarly investigation into any department of human thought or effort." Last year the lectures were delivered by Professor Borden P. Bowne, of the department of philosophy at Boston University since...
...crest of a commercial age. Our foreign commerce alone exceeds our past records, three thousand, three hundred millions of dollars for the past year, and year by year it will mount higher, if we do not lose sight of economic laws and of the moral and human principles in which these laws in the last analysis are embedded...