Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Oh, illustrious masters of the surgical art! It is through you that medical science has achieved its greatest and most glorious conquests throughout the centuries! . . . Italia, Italia bella was the cradle of your art. With the Italian Renaissance surgery attained one of its most transcendent periods through the labors of...
She had had men before he married her. Even their boy's paternity was unknown to him. He had married her, not only for her transcendent, slender beauty, but because she asked him to. She had turned to him because his mental poise made other men seem as children.
But there was one body which made the rest seem shoddy. It covered the spare, fierce bones of the fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas...
"The Mother of God has always been a transcendent inspiration in the world of Art. . . . From the beginning, Christian art has been the handmaiden of the Faith. In the crude and devout symbols of the Catacombs we find the beginnings of that astonishing religious art which flowered so splendidly in...
Mr. Edsall says that "the great moral to be drawn from this controversy is: keep distinct things apart. Do not confuse Science and Religion." Now this is just what isn't the moral of this controversy. In the beginning, science and religion were exactly the same thing--an attempt to...