Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...could not have seen any threat to their civilization from specific material interests in the North. It was the North's moral awakening and not its industrial alertness, its free thought and not its free labor which the Southern planters had to fear. We can not, however, see what actually happened unless we go inside of the Southern civilization, observe the forces that threatened it, and humanly understand what purposes and impulses governed the Southerners themselves while they were fighting these as well as the enemies from without. Among the Southern people themselves there was a growing discontent but they...
...method of treating individuals is notable. Professor Wendell does not take Holmes, Bryant, Whitman, and Longfellow and treat them as unrelated individuals, but takes the work of each as a special medium through which to see American character. The great fault of previous looks on American literature has been that they have over-estimated the merits of American authors. Professor Wendell, though thoroughly American in spirit, is almost too reluctant in his praise of our best literature...
...Each club to submit in competition its best hundred pictures chosen in any way it may see fit; no more than twenty pictures to be submitted by any one competitor...
...ready counsel that he gave. Dr. Peabody spoke feelingly of the unconstrained relations between the Dean and his pupils, and gave an appreciative description of Dr. Everett as he appeared to his friends. He was a man of great clearness and loftiness of moral vision. He seemed to see and realize better than other men the high spiritual mysteries and truths of theology and poetry; he was one of the pure in heart who "shall see God." "Simplicity of character, charity of mind, purity of heart," were Dean Everett's characteristics. "The life of the spirit was his habitual abiding...
...true, Professor Shaler acknowledges, that this intellectual quality akin to their own which men believe they see through the harmony of natural laws is but an imagination and an unreal theory. Personally, Professor Shaler believes it is not unreal, but is a scientific fact. By a series of illustrations he strives to prove that the fundamental processes of nature are so closly akin to the workings of the minds of men that we cannot escape the belief that some infinite and unmortal intelligence is back of all natural phenomena...