Word: humanation
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...from our finite point of view inexplicable. Such evil as tends to make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth. If one dwells upon the capriciousness of fortune and of the human Will, one finds that paradox...
...Moulton began with the definition of the word humour and its derivation. It was derived from the Latin root meaning moistur and during the Middle Ages came to be applied in the plural to the moistures or juices which on old medical authority made up the constitution of a human being, as bile or phlegm. So a bilious or phlegmatic humour came to mean a certain character or state. This was the sense in which Jonson used "humour," in the play "Every Man out of his Humour...
...redemption, with a view to showing that the Incarnation was an event in harmony with the Divine Law, and that all that is recorded of it in the Bible is precisely true and essential to a right understanding of the redemption, which not only changed the current of human affairs but verified the Scriptures and introduced to men the most perfect form of religion when received in the spirit of rational faith...
...Huntington said: The finest scholars, after taking a few steps in the course of their researches, always find themselves confronted by an impassible wall. They reach the end of human knowledge and feel the littleness of it. In such cases it is necessary to look higher, to have faith in the infinite wisdom...
...conclusion, this view, which holds that the world of mechanism is itself essentially "teleological." is applied to the case of the relation between body and mind, and to the problem of human "Freedom." The latter is solved in the sense of Kant's famous doctrine of the "two-fold" human nature, "empirical" and "transcendental," "fatal" and "free...