Word: humanation
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...first see the Umbrians in this rough, unpolished state, clinging to their provincial ideas of sentiment, but influenced more and more by the superior learning and technical skill of Florence. Piero Fanasca was a representative of this period. By his powerful use of outline in the human figure, for he was more of a draughts man than a painter, he helped in the formation of Raphael's style. Perigino, however, was the real forerunner of Raphael. His subjects are said to have bodies belonging to the Renaissance, but souls of the middle ages. His paintings are known for their grace...
...Underlying Basis of All Religions." He said that religion of some sort universally prevails, and that its three greatest divisions are Brahmanism, Buddhism and Christianity. Of these, Brahmanism is the oldest, but it has not as mand followers as the other two; Buddhism embraces two-thirds of the human race; Christianity includes a large part of the remaining third. If, then, we can find any common foundation underlying these three great branches of religion, we may safely regard it as the basis of all religions...
...right: (a) It rests on the old idea of retribution and is not reformatory. (b) It makes conviction less certain. (c) It tends to weaken the sacredness of human life. (d) It is irrevocable...
...unrestrained outpouring of the soul towards the Father of all. The highest civilization which the world knows is one which depends on prayer and which builds edifices for purposes of prayer. In such a civilization there is the most prayer, for the men of genius, unsatisfied by communion with human beings, reach out toward God, that they may be inspired by His lofty spirit...
...only in religion, however, that there are different parties and quarrels coming from unimportant things. In politics there are always two parties contending against each other. It is the same in many matters of life. So it seems as if it is not religion which is narrow, but only human nature cropping out in this as in everything else. Religion is broad in every way, in the time which it covers,- for it extends over eternity,- in its work, which is the redemption of mankind...