Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Massachusetts prescribes that upon every school-house in the commonwealth shall be displayed the stars and strips, yet in the midst of Harvard's historic buildings, in the shadow of her traditions, the flag of our country is nowhere visible. Is it right that Harvard, of all places in the world, should have no apparant sign of her loyal spirit? Is it right that while every place of education in the country but ourselves flys the national colors, we should be without them...
...Mercury, where rest the souls of those who have pursued honor and glory on earth. Their low station in heaven is owing to their excessive desire for honor while in the world of the living. The third sphere is that of the planet Venus, the last to which the shadow of the earth reaches. Here are the souls of those whose perfect virtue has been injured by the mingling of divine and sensual love in their hearts. Thus Dante and Beatrice rise through the seven degrees of blessedness, and Dante talked with the joyful spirits, and increased in wisdom. Still...
More is required than any single comment affords, and among the books which may be commended, but which must be read with discrimination, are: A Shadow of Dante, by Miss M. F. Rossetti, London, 1871; A Companion to Dante from the German of Scartazzini, by A. J. Butler, London, 1893 (valuable, but with much questionable speculation and interpretation); Dante's Divine Comedy, its Scope and Value, by Hettinger, translated by Bowden, London, 1887 (interesting, but not always trustworthy); the essays on Dante by Lowell, Church, Caird and Carlyle, in their respective works...
Phenomena which deserve consideration are those of breath, shadow, reflection, sleep, swoon, sickness, wounds and death, Two facts, interesting in their analogies and contrasts, bear upon the subject, namely, the states of waking and sleeping, and those of life and death. In both sleep and death, something seems to go out from the person, the difference being that in death the something that goes out does not return. Furthermore, when the sleeper dreams of the dead, the explanations of dreams and death confirm each other. As to the nature of that which seems to go out, there are several groups...
...thousand millionaires in our land, and by legislators as well as by those who have set their hearts and minds upon the progress of true science in our great and beloved republic in this time of unprecedented educational opportunity, I have not for a moment a shadow of doubt...