Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1

The following studies are extracts from a longer paper on the life and work of Cibber. No extended investigation concerning the life or the literary activity of Cibber has recen...

My reason for coupling these two subjects in one heading is suggested by the following words quoted from the Introduction to _Creative Evolution_: “... _theory of knowledge_ and...

I. POETIC FUNCTION AND METHOD.--About fifteen poems from Browning deal with the arts or artists of Italy as primary subject matter. The remainder of the entire number of forty-n...

The examination of the words with a view to finding the influence of stem-meaning is not directly concerned with semantic variability: that will be illustrated in the next chapt...

Bergson regards knowledge of oneself as the optimal case of knowing; oneself, he thinks, is the sample of reality which best serves for an acquaintance with the nature of realit...

Logical soundness is never amiss, and is notably desirable in a philosopher; but Professor Bergson is assuredly right in thinking that it is no measure of a philosopher’s genius...

The fallacy of conceptualism, which, as Bergson conceives it, is to substitute space for time as the form of mental existence, has been discussed in the first chapter of _Time a...

An attempt was made in the preceding chapter to show how the meaning of words formed with _-mentum_, _-bulum_ and _-culum_ was influenced by the verb stem. It will be the purpos...

What, then, is called philosophic “method” and is distinguished thereby from “doctrine,” is really, in fact, always the cardinal principle of the _content_ of the philosophy in...

A deep, temperamental abhorrence of determinateness--that is the motive of Bergsonism. By admission of Bergson, any object of the mind is determinate. But therefore a philosophy...

However great a tendency the suffixes under investigation have toward giving to the nouns a certain meaning, the variations of which they are capable,--due, as has been shown, t...

The restrictive conception of intellect is a very old one. The incompatibility of intellect and life, as cognitive organ and object, is certainly as old a belief as the era of t...

One of the problems of philosophy is the nature of philosophy itself. In recognizing such a problem at all, I suppose, the beginning of its solution has been made. For the very...

I. GENERAL STATEMENT.--While forty-nine out of a total of two hundred twenty-two poems by Robert Browning refer to some one of the five fine arts--sculpture, music, poetry, arch...

I. SUBJECT MATTER OF BROWNING’S POEMS.--Three prominent facts concerning the subjects of Browning’s poetry are: the comparative insignificance of nature, the extensive treatment...

I. GENERAL STATEMENT.--Of the two hundred and twenty-two of Browning’s poems, ten contain the name of an Italian poet or of his writings. Five imaginary writers--Aprile, Plara,...

I. GENERAL STATEMENT.--Only ten poems refer to Italian music or musicians--seemingly a small number for a writer who is known as the musician’s poet. Thirteen Italian musicians-...

As stated in the introductory chapter, it has been the primary object of this paper to examine certain word-building suffixes for the purpose of finding out, if possible, what t...

I. GENERAL STATEMENT.--Twenty-nine poems contain the names of Italian painters, and fifty-one Italian painters are mentioned by name; while several of the great artists are ment...

I. GENERAL STATEMENT.--Twenty-five poems of Robert Browning make some reference, brief or extended, to an Italian work of architecture. Two architects, as such, are mentioned in...

of St. George. In Part VIII, the speaker who defends Guido reads a description of a man moved by too much grief, and says it fits Guido’s case just as exactly as Maratta’s portr...

I will conclude these comments on Professor Bergson’s teaching by noting the mystical nature of the central idea of his epistemology, the identification of subject and object. T...

The primary object of this study will be to show, first, the range of semantic variability discernible in a set of noun-formative suffixes and the reason for it; and second, by...

In the second part of this essay material from two papers published in the _Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods_ has been laid under contribution, and also...

A. Concrete -mentum Words on Verb Stems. 1. Nouns denoting result of action, with general application 10 2. Nouns denoting result of action, with restricted application 11 3. No...

I. Poetic Function and Method 48 II. Amount of Material Used from Each of the Fine Arts 49 III. Personality and the Arts 52 IV. Browning as the Poet of Humanity 54

I. Subject Matter of Browning’s Poems 9 II. Interest in Music 10 III. Relation to Painting 10 IV. Relation to Sculpture 12 V. Significance of the Preceding Sections 12 VI. Time...

I. General Statement 29 II. Predominance in Early Poems 29 III. Sordello 30 IV. The Imaginary Poets 30 V. The Italian as the Type of Failure 31 VI. Italian Men of Letters: Dante...

I. General Statement 40 II. Extent of Browning’s Knowledge 40 III. Irregular Distribution of References 41 IV. Sources of the Poems 42 V. Poetic Functions of the References to P...

I. General Statement 23 II. Catholic Hymns 23 III. Poetic Functions of the References to Music 24 IV. Lack of Modern Italian References 26 V. Conformity to Facts 27 VI. Source o...