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...with advantage, but it seems to be unnecessary to do so when we come to discuss an author whose life and actions were of such shameless degradation that they should be referred to only in order to subject them to the severest condemnation. With all due regard to French Realism, I can scarcely believe that for two hundred students to listen to a detailed account of such a life, unless it be delivered in order that its hideousness be shown, is either profitable or consistent with the high tone of this college...
...first paper, a sketch by J. S. of Dale, is a fascinating but horrible study in after-death pathology. The materialistic nature of future suffering is drawn with a realism at times absolutely repulsive. This article will, perhaps, be the one most interesting to the readers. Its effect upon the mind is a strange mixture of psychological curiosity and mental disgust. From this we turn with satisfaction to the translation from de Musset by Mr. Santayana. The poetical powers of Mr. Santayana might, perhaps, be questioned, when he handles that most dangerous of all compositions, the philosophical sonnet, but here...
...streets than does this romance among the novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that it brings before...
...laws, are great obstacles in the way of such an investigation. The lecturer in closing expressed his belief that before long, some definite conclusions would be arrived at. The next lecture in this course will be given on Friday evening, by Mr. Francis E. Abbot of Cambridge, on Scientific Realism...
Friday, March 6. Scientific Realism, the basis of Philosophy, by Mr. Francis E. Abbot of Cambridge...