Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURES ON GREEK POETRY. II. "Chaos, and the element of Regeneration. Aidos and Nemesis." Professor Gilbert Murray, of Glasgow. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Gilbert Murray, M.A., LL.D., formerly professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow, will deliver the second of his series of lectures on "Greek Traditional Poetry" in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject for tonight will be "Chaos, and the Element of Regeneration. Aidos and Nemesis." The lecture will be open to the public...
...LECTURES ON GREEK POETRY. II. "Chaos, and the element of Regeneration. Aidos and Nemesis." Professor Gilbert Murray, of Glasgow. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...great elements in the degradation and violence of the Russian people has been the excessive taste for liquor, even among what should be the hardy element of the population. In all the struggles the people will be at a continual disadvantage, having poor equipment and no unity or confidence in each other. The political advancement of the people can be attained only by moral education, and while this is being fostered, the population must be held in check by the aristocracy...
...land-wealth had greatly increased of late years, whereas formerly, when land was cheap, great tracts had been held by single individuals. Land rents in the Middle Ages were more indirect than direct, and were levied more on the people than on things produced on the land. A great element of recent fortunes is town and city property, whether built on or not, and this was almost unknown to the people of the Middle Ages. Land which has been built on in France, has increased in value from three to twelve million dollars in the last 50 years...