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...historical beginnings of the theory of immortality were crude. In the primeval savage tribes, it existed in the belief in ghosts who more or less directly influenced the lives of mortal men. As the intellect of mankind developed through the ages, so this theory of immortality grew and became clearer,--showing itself in the religion of the Hebrews, the mythology of the Greeks, and reaching its culmination in Christianity...
...essentials of music are three in number--melody, rhythm and harmony--having their effect upon the ear, the emotions, and the intellect. Music is also of three distinct kinds, which represent a gradual development,--first, pure music, expressing no thought, simple in its intrinsic beauty; second, "programme" music, supposed to represent or to imitate real life; and third, dramatic music, which is the accompaniment of poetry. Beethoven's music exemplified the first kind, but failed in the second, the "programme" music. It remained for Schubert to immortalize dramatic music in the song. His ability to set any verse to music...
...very great believer in athletics because I believe that although intellect is a good thing, the University should do more than develop that alone. Force, strength of will and character are things that can not be neglected in a well-organized body. A man to be sure must not be known merely as having been a good athlete while in college. He must do something afterwards. And while I appreciate to the full what a well trained mind means, I am bound to say that the longer I live I come to believe that intellect comes second to the powers...
This lecture dealt with the "General Nature of the Intellect," the second will deal with "The Basis of Our Social Consciousness-the Ego and the Alter," the third and fourth with "The Beginnings of Social Life in the Individual," the fifth with the "Theory of the Origin of the Ideas of Ego and Alter," the sixth with the "Social Basis of the Thinking Process," the seventh with the "Social Basis of the Reasoning Process," the eighth with the "Social Basis of Conscience," and the ninth with the "Social Basis of Our View of Nature," and the tenth lecture will...
...told that Whitman's apparent vanity is broad-minded candor; that his crudeness of form is a positive virtue; for thereby he expresses with greater freedom the great acts and underlying principles of daily life. Whitman, says Burroughs, is superior to Emerson, in that the latter's intellect starves out his sympathies and emotions. Again, Whitman rises above the sphere of literary culture and conventional form which confines Tennyson and Browning. He belongs rather with Homer, Job, and Isaiah, for his poetry is more than literature; it is humanity itself...