Word: instinctiveness
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...memorial to Frank Bolles in the interest of the poor man will be remote from any system of competitive prizes; it will be something capable of enlargement by the enlistment of student pluck and cooperation; it will be instinct with charity and a simple, firm reproof of the spirit of mendicancy...
...from a considerable personal experience; and his lecture threw light on a subject the understanding of which, with most college men, is probably far from clear. Of journalism he spoke chiefly as it qualifies men to become Bohemians, or perhaps rather as it attracts those in whom the Bohemian instinct is strong; but this was merely incidental to his more important description of Bohemia and the Bohemians. The Bohemia with which he was dealing is not the country known to geography, but is "a condition rather than a place"; while the Bohemian is a person "employed in some precarious calling...
...beautiful always, whether in nature or in man. He taught himself the art of self-criticism, of which earlier poets were ignorant. This gave his writings the double power both of nature and art. Though drama was not then recognized, yet we cannot fail to mark the dramatic instinct of which he was possessed. In all the essentials of genius, - in inheritance, in acquired qualities, and in fitting circumstances - Chaucer was complete. He was the father of English literature...
...last enquiry, we are led to ask what is this underlying force. Science has answered that in physical matters an eternal energy is behind all. Ethics tells us that behind all this social agitation is the moral instinct of men, trying to make itself felt, and yet this moral life in man is only a part of the perfected life in God. The social struggle is really a struggle to spiritualize our material conditions...
...society had adapted itself to the conditions of feudalism. This had refinement, amorous mind, and poetical instinct, who became the first troubadour. It is to these troubadours, that all morals and all art of the present day owe a great debt...