Word: humanation
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...contents include besides the human remains, various kinds of pottery, stone vessels, and amulets made of gold or some kinds of precious stones. The skeleton remains are in most cases intact, and in some of the graves perfectly preserved bodies have been found. In the earlier dynasties, the bodies are buried facing towards the west with the knees drawn up close to the body, while in the fifth and sixth dynasties the bodies invariably face to the east and lie more fully extended...
Secondly, Harvard teaches her sons the worth and value of the past as an inspiration to present work. The great works of literature--the Odyssey, the Iliad, Shakspere's works and Dante's and Goethe's--are expressions of human life and feeling and are inspiring to men of every age. Present achievement is the more perfect realization of past phenomena. Understanding of the past is power, and this power Harvard gives through her training to her sons...
...will start May 1 on an exploring trip in connection with the Peabody Museum, to the mound region of Mississippi. This exploration, undertaken at his own expense, will be a continuation of the one made last year to the same district. The object is to complete the collection of human skeletons, stone implements, pottery and other objects which were obtained last year and presented to the Museum...
...Human civilization depends first, upon making the physical world a store-house of instruments--facts; second, upon an increasing love of our ideals. We have, then, so far, a drawn battle between the advocates of the supremacy of facts and of ideals. But the greatest of our ideals is that there are ultimate facts, objects, that is, which, were we wise enough, we ought to observe. No man has seen God,--yet neither has he seen a fact. Ultimate facts are beyond our own experience, but not beyond any experience; and to say a fact does not exist...
...every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during the last ten years. Zola has betrayed Truth; he has made up his mind to depict human nature as ugly, and accordingly all classes fail to recognize themselves as he depicts them. In defence of this pessimistic attitude of Zola, the reply should be that one cannot expect an artist to paint things as they really are; but to paint things as he sees them. Zola...