Word: humanation
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Every part of the human body has been modified and determined by the peculiar function it has been made to perform. The traces of primitive man show a constant struggle with natural forces, a struggle for supremacy which developed all the muscular powers which have been handed down...
...various systems of muscles of the human body,- the systems on the back: the head and shoulders, the thigh, and the calf muscles-those in front: the foot, the shin, thigh, abdomen and chest,- and the functions of these systems and their methods of action together with the best means of exercising them, were then shown by means of the three models...
...predecessors, the lecturer showed that in the eighteenth century poets had spoken of outside life; in the beginning of the present century they spoke of feelings and the inner life, yet with sterile aspirations into a world of dreams; Poushkin takes real life inasmuch as it is reflected in human feelings and, turning human feelings from their deviation into a world of fiction, restores them to real life...
...creations-a novel in verse: "Eugene Oneguin,"-with an interesting sketch of the literary aspect presented by Russian society of the first decade of our century. The chief chacteristic of Poushkin's lyric poetry was harmoniousness and many sidedness. Equally excellent, said the speaker, was the poet in picturing human sorrow or human joy. One never goes without the other, and, to express the poet's complexity, the lecturer characterizes it as "pouring rain with brilliant sunshine." He endeavored to give his hearers an impression of Poushkin's language and its charm. The whole was frequently illustrated by translations...
...Savage took for his text two passages: Hebrews xii, 27 and 28; and Matthew v, 48. He showed that religion, stripped of its ceremonial and reduced to its essence, the effort of man to get into better relations with the Supreme Power, is a permanent element in human life; and that, furthermore, religion, in this abstract sense, is the one distinguishing characteristic of true manhood...