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Excerpt from Flying Over London and Other Verses During the tense years from 1914 to 1918 many men and women who had been quite contented to be pedestrians moving to the time of a steady and dependable prose, found themselves tempted to try the wings of verse. Some men found the old lyric impulse of college days returning and bent their words to unaccustomed measures. The verses which follow came from such a motive, and the only reason for th...

Excerpt from A Living Book in a Living AgeThat man is dead and doesn't know it. SO in a brief, cutting sentence a brilliant critic characterized a man who had wasted his vitality and was living out his years in dull lethargy, the mere husk Of the man he had once been. Peo ple differ vastly in this matter Of vitality. Some are vividly and contagiously alive, some have ¿ashes Of vital energy, and some seem to be curiously lifeless.Books are like...

Excerpt from A Little Book of Sermons Help to produce him. Out of their com mon aspiration, out of their common strug gle, out of their common hope, he arises at last to do his work in the world. People must dream the right dreams and hope the right hopes if the highest sort of leader is produced among men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com Thi...

Excerpt from The Man of Power: A Series of Studies in Christian Efficiency It is a dangerous thing for a word to become popular. The experience is likely to turn its head. Over and over again a steady and capable word which has had a long and useful career has come into sudden notoriety. The experience has been quite too much for it. Flaunted in the headlines of yellow journals, flung from the tongues of sensational speakers, carelessly tosse...

Excerpt from The Inevitable Book Norton Brainard was seated comfortably in a chair in his den. He was surrounded by shelves on shelves of books. Even in the most strenuous days of his upward climb he had been a great reader. The furnishings of the room were luxurious enough, but there was a well-bred quiet about them which kept the luxury from offending the fastidious eye. The hour was late, but Norton Brainard, just in from a dinner of the ...

Excerpt from The Productive Beliefs The late Colonel E. W. Cole of Nashville, Tennessee, donated to Vanderbilt University the sum of five thousand dollars, afterwards increased by Mrs. E. W. Cole to ten thousand, the design and conditions of which gift are stated as follows: "The object of this fund is to establish a foundation for a perpetual Lectureship in connection with the Biblical Department of the University, to be restricted in its s...

Excerpt from The Significance of the Protestant Reformation: A Series of Lectures Delivered in Connection With the Observance of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Posting of the Theses by Luther Things always begin before they start. This paradox must constantly be kept in mind in the study and the interpretation of historical movements. The fact before the fact must be sought out and brought into the clear light of knowledge. If the six...

Excerpt from Men of the Kingdom: Athanasius: The Hero The days when men could be ruled by formal and lifeless dogma have passed. The days when all dogma is looked upon with suspicion are passing. We are beginning to learn that there is no particular merit in being uncertain about nearly everything fundamental in theology, and in repudiating all well-defined boundaries. The days of a living dogma, thrilling with creative energy, and claiming n...

Excerpt from The Opinions of John Clearfield Ohn clearfield was holding a little book in his hand. I peered over his shoulder and discovered that it was Maxi milian A. Miigee's discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche in the series called The People's Books. The Man of Books and Men was just ready to break out into speech. It was evident that without the slightest intention of doing it I had timed my arrival with precise rela tion to his mood and hi...

Excerpt from Britain's Contribution to Victory, Vol. 19 The address here published was delivered before the Chicago Association of Commerce on "British Day, " December 7, 1918, by Professor Lynn Harold Hough, who was sent to Great Britain by Northwestern University on a speaking tour to interpret to the British people American ideals and purposes in the war. This is the first message of Professor Hough to America as a result of his visit Brit...