Word: humanitis
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...Crothers preached at vespers in Appleton Chapel yesterday from the text, "The path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." He said, human life often seems to a man to be an anti-climax. A young man starts out in the world with high ideals, striving to be perfect, the best in everything, the superlative in all his work. But as he grows older and sees how hard it is to attain even mediocrity, his ideals usually fall. He drops from the superlative to the comparative. He is trying...
...modern decoration which deserve especial attention; the quality of vigor, homogeneousness of decoration, and violent foreshortening. Vigor, which has hardly received its fair share of attention, is a feature of decoration which the ancient artists greatly underrated and by exaggerating the importance of each muscle and member of the human frame greatly diminished the effectiveness of their ensemble. The modern artist has learned that simplicity is the most forcible mode of expressing vigor...
Giotto seems to have been alone in his work, for no one could compare with him for years. For a hundred years after his time there was not a work which showed any appreciation by the the artists of the beauties of the human form. All their figures they clothed in heavy draperies; and even Fra Angelico, the best of them, seemed to consider the nude below his dignity...
...this prayer which I have taken as my text had been thought of by man, I should believe that the human race had a splendid prospect before it, but as it was taught by one from heaven, who knew the weakness of man, I hope for a still more brilliant future...
When and how shall this kingdom of heaven on earth be brought about? It is not through human culture alone that it shall come, but through divine cooperation. My hope for spring is not in the soil, but in the sun; I believe in the fulfillment of this prayer because I believe in God. My hope for the future is because of my faith in God. True prayer is the prayer of life. One cannot offer the prayer which Jesus taught us to use without embracing all humanity in his thoughts. To be a Christian one must be broad...