Word: humanitis
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...religion, Christ is a door, through which Divinity comes to Humanity, just as the artist, the thinker, are door between the realms of beauty, and truth, and men. Through Christ God reveals himself to men. There is an innate passion in the human mind for expansion and one of the forms which this passion takes is a search for God. It is to this searching that the words come "I am the door...
...possible, the expression of all that is noble in man. By grouping together, representations of three types of character, all different, yet all pointing to one ideal conception of manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed in Schubert's unfinished symphony, a life beautifully calm, yet with its moments of sorrow, finally, to that magnificent expression of manhood in Beethoven's grandest symphony, culminating in the glorious burst of triumph...
...Nikisch chose the evening's music with the special idea of making it a memorial to Mr. Lowell, and no better choice could have been made, to bring back to mind the variety of gift and emotion which characterized his nature. The Symphonies, especially Beethoven's, are eminently human in quality, and it is due to just this fact, that they inspire so much feeling in people. There was an evident fitness in this music, in which the passions, the hopes, the joys, and disappointments of life, are so strangely intermingled, and especially did the fitness show itself...
...literature of power includes the works of the imagination, novels and dramas and the like. Men of large observation are the authors of the greatest works of human literature. The Iliad and Odyssey give evidence of this; with St. Augustine it was the same. Dante, during his long weary exile devoted himself to observation. Shakspere, it is needless to speak of. Goethe saw things as did no one else. Browning's greatness lies in the results of his observation. These are the great names in the literary history of the world. The same statements, however, are true of the lesser...
...novel it is not needful to say much here. It has its place; relaxation is necessary. Paradise lost and paradise regained makes up the story of human life. Begin your course of reading with what is interesting and in this way you will gain a taste for literature which will be invaluable...