Word: humanation
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...will seek to learn something of the internal order of the material universe and something therefore of the Creator who is back of it all. In their study of history and literature they will seek to learn something of moral order and of Him who inspires and directs human life...
...certain set of lines at various points throughout a picture--a line in a castle echoing a line in a cottage; one on a bridge, another in a fence. These rhythms afford the observer pleasure in echoing or reinforcing some important idea. Secondly, Turner shows love for human interest. Everywhere he enlivens his already intensely charming landscapes by appropriately placed and logically related human figures. And thus his landscape with human interest has an unusual power *sthetically. Lastly, Turner always takes special delight in contrasting the ruin of the rich with the permanence of the poor--the battered, weatherbeaten castle...
...self centred traits of his nature began to disappear. From this time must be dated the real beginning of his literary career. The old sensitiveness to emotion and idealism, the delicate fancy and imagination still remained, and to these he has added something of the sympathy with mankind and human nature by which alone he might interpret the emotions and characters...
...book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does not lie in its rich and beautiful style, nor in the strength of its plot, nor in the accuracy of its historical description, but rather in the deep and tender sympathy and comprehension of human nature that Thackeray has so marvelously expressed. In "Henry Esmond," in "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes" Thackeray showed that power which has placed him high among English writers--the power of creating in fiction, by his sincerity, by the brilliancy of his humor and the tenderness of his nature, characters that...
...also found by a similar study of aqueous vapor in the X-ray phenomenon that, probably by varying the conditions of the strength of the electrical discharges and the condition of the vapor, X ray photographs can be secured of tendons and muscles of the human body, together with photographs of the skeleton. Interesting results were obtained in regard to the phenomena of wireless telegraphy along this same line of electrical work...