Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...decided effect on it. Thus their elegant rhetoric soon put an end to the spontaneous prophesying which was common in the first days of the church, and made way for the preaching of modern times. It used to be thought that the Christian church was an entirely new phenomenon; but this is far from true. It is only unique in its idea of Christ. In fact, irreverant though it may seem to admit it, Christianity is indebted to pagan ideas for a number of our religious ceremonies...
...International Congress of Experimental Psychology, which then meets in England. The object of the Census is to find what proportion of persons in the community have seen a vision, heard a voice, or felt a touch when no one was physically present to account for the phenomenon. Incidentally a large amount of material for the comparative study of hallucinations and apparitions is swept in. I have now the answers "yes" or "no" from upwards of 5,000 persons, and accounts of 700 or 800 positive experiences; but I much wish to increase this material...
...work of one man. He made out twenty component parts in it, the rest having been added at different times as it was handed down. These twenty lays dealing with the Nibelungen note form the nucleus of the song. The Nibelungenlied is in substance a tragedy, and an unparalleled phenomenon in the world's history. It assumed its present form in the 12th century, and it is from Norwegian sources that we have poems showing its form. The song is a myth signifying the victory of the seasons. Summer appeared to the old Teutonic tribes as a kind god with...