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...over his own land, Mr. Tagore is greeted as the poet of the nation, as the maker of a new era in literature. But behind all his writings, there is a well-developed system of philosophy which none of his readers fails to notice. It is a religious philosophy and inspires a sense of beauty and a moral robustness that only a religious philosophy can inspire. But poet and philosopher as he is, Mr. Tagore's interests are never divorced from life. His lyrics, dramas, short stories, and essays--all are concerned with the daily problems of life...
...Fitch said that youth is not primarily interested in the science of religion, that it does not want to be pious. It does want to be brave, clean, honest, and useful. It does, behind a deep and shy reserve, revere itself, its Maker, and its brethren. Here is a youth's conscious idea of his religion; that as boyhood ends, character must begin; that as manhood is consummated, capacity to serve must be its essential witness...
...stopped the bloodiest war of history, the Russian-Japanese war, which threatened two great nations with destruction and drew into the quarrel many others. There was not any precedence for interfering, but the result justified the act. Roosevelt was not a breaker of precedence but a maker of precedence. The treaty of Portsmouth, the outcome of Theodore Roosevelt's own efforts, raised the prestige of the American nation to a position commanding greater respect and recognition among the nations of the world than ever before attained...
...MENORAH SOCIETY LECTURES. "Representative Men of Israel. I. Moses, the Master-mind, the Maker of Israel." Dr. S. Schulman, of New York, N. Y. Emerson...
...MENORAH SOCIETY LECTURES. "Representative Men of Israel. I. Moses, the Master-mind, the Maker of Israel." Dr. S. Schulman, of New York, N. Y. Emerson...