Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most striking parts of the book is the discussion of Calvinism and Unitarianism. The philosophy of these two movements, with their relations to history, and their literary results, have nowhere else been so carefully studied. On the other hand, Professor Wendell fails to understand Thoreau and Emerson. Grouping Thoreau with Alcott under the lesser men of Concord is clearly a lapse of judgment. The subject of transcendentalism is also handied in a somewhat superficial manner. The spirit of Emerson is also missed, perhaps because of over-emphasis on the "Yankee" element in Emerson. Mr. John J. Chapman...
...author's conception of the New England movement as renascent is very illuminating. It helps one to understand what, at a superficial glance, is very puzzling:--that is,--why the great writers of America should have been all New Englanders and of about the same generation. This and kindred topics are treated in a manner wonderful for its fine sanity...
...necessary to understand in the first place the real meanings of the three terms "the Kingdom of God," "the Church," and "the Church System." Wherever the spirit of God is present and is working superior to other influences, there is the Kingdom of God. It is born in the worship of the individual soul, and works out in active service for society. Every great social movement for good is a part and a manifestation of the Kingdom of God among...
...individual home and the community will not give moral or financial aid to the school--will not co-operate with the school unless they believe in it. Hence the necessity for conference between the homes and the school that the school may know and clearly understand the desires of the home in other than merely formal ways, and that the home may similarly understand and appreciate the difficulties and the efficacy of the school, as well as its short comings; and in order that each may recognize its own share of responsibility for the results actually achieved...
...matter is not one between the faculty and the undergraduates--in fact the faculty have been careful to make the undergraduates feel that the solution of the evil is with them entirely; while the undergraduates for their part have done their best to remedy matters, but have failed to understand thoroughly the situation...