 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1899 - 966 pages
...in the achievement of one's ancestors is almost as widely distributed a characteristic of mankind u the power of speech. In China, the national religion...and exploits, have distinguished themselves from the masa of their countrymen. But no memorial can be national and efficient, unless it be at once permanent,... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Biography - 1911 - 68 pages
...satisfy a natural instinct in man—the commemorative instinct —the universal desire to keep alive the memories of those who by character and exploits have distinguished themselves from the mass of mankind. Art, pictorial, plastic, monumental art, competes with biography in preserving memories of... | |
 | William Henry Draper - 1912 - 280 pages
...satisfy a natural instinct in man—the commemorative instinct—the universal desire to keep alive the memories of those who by character and exploits have distinguished themselves from the mass of mankind. Character and exploits are for biographical purposes inseparable. Biography aims at satisfying... | |
 | Richard Johnson Walker - English literature - 1913 - 592 pages
...delivered by Sir Sidney Lee to the effect that it is the aim of biography to transmit the personality of those who by character and exploits have distinguished themselves from the mass of mankind. If this be so, we are not sure that this book, viewed as a biography for general reading,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1896 - 766 pages
...which seems to have been left hopelessly stranded on the borderland between barbarism and civilisation, in China the national religion centres round a worship of progenitors to very remote degrees. Exercises in genealogy happily form small part of the religious ritual of the more favoured nations... | |
 | David Novarr - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 228 pages
...here underwent only slight modification in his later essays. Biography stems, he suggests, from the “instinctive desire to do honour to the memories...distinguished themselves from the mass of their countrymen”; it deals with “the nature of the achievements or characteristics” that are thought worthy of commemoration... | |
 | Jolanta T. Pekacz - Music - 2006 - 260 pages
...satisfy a natural instinct in man - the commemorative instinct - the universal desire to keep alive the memories of those who by character and exploits have distinguished themselves from the mass of mankind. An unfit biographic theme is a career of trivial aim, incomplete, without magnitude, or of... | |
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the power of speech. In China, the national religion centres round a worship of progenitors to very remote degrees, and Western nations exhibit the same instinctive desire to do honour to the memories of those who, by character and exploits, have distinguished... 