Word: optimistic
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Dates: during 1892-1892
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...guests were treated to a very interesting talk by Professor Sumichrast on Renan, and his philosophy, Professor Sumichrast said he had chosen his subject because Renan had lately died and because Renan had more influence than any other one man on French thought of today. Renan was an optimist, while the majority of the young writers and thinkers of today are pessimists of the worst sort. Renan, says Professor Sumichrast, has not been the prime cause of atheism in France, which really has been steadily diminishing in the last twenty-five years...
...result of this discovery, he left the seminary and sought for the truth in science. All seemed dark to him and he went to Palestine to travel. When he returned he was changed to an optimist. He was deeply imbued with Christ and wrote a passionate account of his life...