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Great Men as Prophets of a New Era

By Newell Dwight Hillis

2020-10-27 17:33:53

Excerpt from Great Men as Prophets of a New Era Great law, a great liberty, a great art or tool or reform represents a great soul, organized, and made unconsciously immortal for all time. Explorers trace the N ile or Amazon back to the lake in which ... Read more
Excerpt from Great Men as Prophets of a New Era Great law, a great liberty, a great art or tool or reform represents a great soul, organized, and made unconsciously immortal for all time. Explorers trace the N ile or Amazon back to the lake in which the river takes its rise. His torians trace institutions back to some here from whose mind and heart the life-giving movement pours forth. When the scholar travels back to the far-off beginnings of juris prudence, he comes to some Mosw, toiling in Thebes, to some Solon in Athens, to some J us tinian in Rome. Not otherwise the renais sance of painting, sculpture, and architecture begins with some Giotto, some Michael Angelo, some Christopher Wren. Scholars often speak of history as narratory or philosophical, but in the last analysis, history is biographical. These studies were prepared for the students of Plymouth Institute in the belief that biog raphy' is life's wisest teacher, and that the. Less

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PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1406765878
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Newell Dwight Hillis
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Newell Dwight Hillis (September 2, 1858 – February 25, 1929) was a Congregationalist minister, writer, and philosopher from Brooklyn. He served as pastor of the historic Plymouth Church of the Pilgr...

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