Word: morall
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...great issues of humanity and to illustrate spiritual problems of our day. The subjects are "Spinoza to Kant," "Fichte," "The Romantic Movement in Philosophy," "Hegel," "Schopenhawer," "The rise of the Philosophy of Evolution," "Idealism as a Tendency in Philosophy," "Fate, Law and Freedom," and "Optimism, Pessimism and the Moral Order." The lectures began Saturday and will be given at the houses of Mrs. W. T. Blodgett, Mrs. Charles F. Chandler, Mrs. Henry Draper, Mr. Dunham, Mrs. Henry Holt, Mrs. W. C. Whitney, Mrs. R. W. Gilder, and Mrs. William H. Draper...
...speaker began by defining the Darwinian doctrine of evolution as the theory that man is decended from the ape, and said that in tracing the influence of this theory upon our ideas of moral and human life, he would group his work under the following heads: 1, Man's place in Nature; 2, The evolution of morals, 3, The nature of God; 4, Life and immortality. Every great religion has asserted that the arrival of man marked the final and highest stage of creation. In fact, the promise of immortality held out by every creed depends directly upon this assumption...
...Everett of the Theological school. Mr. Niven said that there is nothing in the history of European literature more noteworthy than Carlyle's relation to Goethe. Carlyle was one of the first to recognize the great genius of Goethe and Goethe in return felt Carlyle to be a moral force...
...judged Goethe so carefully and so critically his thoughts and opinions would not have been, as they are now, those of mankind but simply those of Carlyle. The explanation of Carlyle's attitude to Goethe is that of conviction of great imagination and power of expression united to high moral power. Carlyle never judged a man to have faults if the inner spirit which inspired and ruled a man's life was pure and noble, and this spirit Goethe had in the highest degree. Goethe, of course, had his petty faults, but nevertheless he had lived...
...Peabody spoke last night on our coming obstacles, physical, mental and moral. There are thres ways of dealing with an obstacle; to struggle with it unsuccessfully, to crawl around it meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human...