Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 14, 2025
In every case, in her judgment of the two great Anglo-Saxon races, she has been at fault through over-emphasising their capacity for baseness and under-estimating their capacity to respond to an ideal.
We recognise his emotional calibre, which is of a dramatic intensity, though never over-emphasising the morbid. Of his intellectual grasp there is no question. He possesses pathos, passion, sincerity, and humour. Wide knowledge of mankind and nature he has, and in the field of moral power we need but ask if he is a Yes-Sayer or a No-Sayer, as the Nietzschians have it.
Thus expressed, the doctrine of God's nearness and indwelling will probably commend itself to most thoughtful religious people; but in re-emphasising an aspect of truth there is always the danger of over-emphasising it, of claiming it as the whole and sole truth of falling, in a word, from one extreme into the other.
It is hypocrisy to pretend that they are alone or even chiefly operative. But it is cynicism wholly to deny their influence. And of the two sins cynicism is the worse, because by over-emphasising it strengthens and cultivates the lower among the mixed motives by which men are ruled.
When do we ever, on the stage, see the slightest attempt, on the part of even the "solo" players, to give its precise value to every word of that poetry which is itself a not less elaborate piece of concerted music? The two great dangers in the speaking of verse are the danger of over-emphasising the meaning and the danger of over-emphasising the sound.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking