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...Winsor says: "When we view the character of Columbus in its influence upon the minds of men, we find some strange anomolies. Before his passion was tainted with the ambition of wealth, and its consequence, and while he was urging the acceptance of his views for their own sake, it is evident that he impressed others in a way that never happened after he had secured his privileges. It is after this turning point of his life that we begin to see his falsities and indiscretions, or, at least, to find record of them...
Njal was fair of aspect and beardless, and so great a lawyer that his equal could not be found. Njal and Gunnar used in alternate years to entertain each other for friendship's sake. On such an occasion Hallgertha taunts Njal as being beardless, but Gunnar and Njal refuse to quarrel. Again Hallgertha makes a shameless jest on Njal, but the sturdy men remain true in their friendship...
Modern science is far advanced and, indeed, it has been studied by some men for its own sake, and Romanticism, which was once so flourishing, gradually died out. Men came to realize more and more a truth which Butler signalized by saying that things are what they are; things will be what they will be and that it is folly to be deceived into thinking otherwise. But as Romanticism disappeared, a new power was rising and it was ready when the former was gone, to fill its place. This new star was science. Men devoted their lives...
...adoption of the plan would be an excellent thing for the Foot Ball Association. It would inevitably increase the sale of season tickets. Not only would more men buy a single season ticket, but without doubt many men would be glad to buy two or more for the sake of securing that many reserved seats for the Yale game. They would do this the more willingly because they would know that, though they were thus paying a premium for their tickets, the money would go into the treasury of the Foot Ball Association, and not into the pockets of speculators...
...other nations. The result of this movement was the study of everything Mediaeval by Grimm and Uhland with a view to tracing all modern ideals to an orgin in a national folk lore. When the Romantic impulse for these studies died, and the modern idea of science for sciences sake arose Romance and Germanic Philology was already compiled. With such tools the motives of Science and Nationality promise to make continual excursions in the field of Mediaeval study...