Description
At the wish of the issuers the signatory has set this overview and two additional sections on the Religious and Theological Literature of Great Britain and the United States. To the minister in his ground work for the podium also to the typical reader and pupil of devotional history, the purpose of the review of literature is necessary. The lecture itself is a portion of literature, must have its scholarly completion and extents, and must provide enough verification of a knowhow with the masterworks of the English language. The wholeness of words introduces to even the spontaneous reader a powerful and differed glut of marvelous and sweet crop. But to the heartfelt learner who discovers with systematic review and understanding mind the intelligent produces of countries and years rather than his own, the endless diversity, so stunningly evident to the feigning spectator, determines itself into a lovely and melodious accord. Literature is the proof of the sacrifices and ambitions of man in the infinite sphere of idea. As in physics the correlation and preservation of power connect all the relevant sciences as one, so in the universe of intelligence all the many divisions of intellectual life and feat search for their usual connection in literature. Even the four symbols and formulas of the mathematician and the chemist are but curtailed styles of writing such as the stenography of those definite sciences. The common histories of the archivist, the smooth lines of the poet, dressing his idea with feathered stanzas, the obscure proposals of the philosopher, the thrashing complaints of the brave activist of either in Church or government. Henry Augustin Beers was a writer, literary historian, poet, and educator at Yale University. He became a lawyer and a tutor before associating in the Yale Department of English, where he wrote several books like academic studies of literature, poetry, and biographies.