But the change that can be wrought in a man's heart upon sight of a human sign!

Just so there were human beings it seemed enough.

The dogs outside were howling like human beings put to torture.

Not only in the great cities is human flesh and blood held cheaper than that of the brutes.

A smudge?nothe grain of human skin clean printeda distorted palm without a thumb.

Pray let me feel you, Sir,Are you human? Doct.

But at last, methought you grew angry at something, and they all fled to Heaven again; and after a deal of Thunder and Lightning, I wak'd, Sir, and hearing human Voices here, came to see what the Matter was.

I humbly thank your Admonition, Sir, and shall, in all I can, struggle with human Frailty.

His Charms too fierce for Flesh and Blood, She dy'd embracing of her God, We gentler marks of Passion give, The Maid we love, shall love and live; Whom visibly we thus will grace, Above the rest of human Race, Say, is't your Will that we shou'd wed her, And nightly in Disguises bed her? Doct.

Stopford Brooke points out that Browning's Caliban, though almost brute, shows himself human, in that, besides thinking out his natural religion, he also dramatises and creates, "falls to make something." 'Tis solace making baubles, ay, and sport.

Morally, it is through impressing himself on his surroundings, that the child reaches the human attributes of self-consciousness and self-control.

Neither art nor science can remain long afloat in high abstract regions above the needs and interests of human life.

But he has to adapt himself not only to the physical but to the human environment in which he lives.

In stories of all kinds, children study human life in all kinds of circumstances, nay, if the story is sufficiently graphic they almost go through the experiences narrated, almost live the new life.

Obedience is no doubt the nursery virtue in the eyes of authority, but kindness is much more human and attractive.

People still "spend all their time in the fields and forests and see and feel nothing of the beauties of Nature, and of their influence on the human heart"; and this, said Froebeland it is just what Mr. Clutton Brock is saying nowis because the child "fails to find the same feelings among adults."

Or how meet in human elf Coming and past eternities.

The greatest Teacher of all taught by stories, and when any story deepens our feelings for human nature and our recognition of the heights to which it can rise, when it makes us long for faith, courage, and love to go and do likewise, who shall say that this is not religious teaching, teaching which helps to deliver us from the bonds that hamper spiritual ascent.

Those who regard the child as empty, who wish to fill his mind from without, neglect the means of cultivation in word and tone which should lead to a sense of rhythm and obedience to law in all human expression.

But as they followed her and looked into her soulwith their hearts, which were human too, wrung at the sight of hers in its anguishthere suddenly became visible before them a strange sight such as they had never seen before.

with thankfulness and awe; but because she was human, and knew so little, and was full of impatience, 'Oh, and is this all?' was what she next said.

All was vain,the morning and the evening, and the spirit of man and the ways of human life.

He showed her that this was the great thing in human life, and that though it was not enough to make a man perfect, yet that he who sinned against his will was different from the man who sinned with his will; and how in all things the choice of the man for good or evil was all in all.

Oh, father, in terrible trouble!" "But, my boy," I said (I was at my wits' end), "if it was a child that was lost, or any poor human creaturebut, Roland, what do you want me to do?" "I should know if I was you," said the child eagerly.

To live for thine own ends'tis human; to die for some great cause, for liberty, or for another's goodthat, my son, were God-like.

It was bad enough in WILKIE COLLINS to banish his dramatis personae to Scotland; but he was nevertheless too humane to send them to Michigan.) JULIUS DELAMAYN.

After three hours of this sort of thing a humane person in the audience brings in a saw and begins to file it.

In whatever land you live, serve under some wise and good man among those in high office, and make friends with the more humane of its men of education.

"Although," said King Wu, "he is surrounded by his near relatives, they are not to be compared with men of humane spirit.

Captains, whose vessels have been made hells-afloat by their tyranny, have found abundant testimony in the courts of law to their gentle and humane deportment on land.

This belief may have been encouraged, if not invented, for a humane purpose: but how are we to account for the efficacy of the Irish stone in curing swellings caused by venomous reptiles, by merely being rubbed upon the part affected?

My chief tormentor, being a man of mild temper and humane disposition, considers that it might at first suffice to employ gentle measures, such, for example, as suspending thee head downwards in the smoke of a wood fire, and filling thy nostrils with red pepper.

Does it not seem that the pretended reformer, the founder of independence of thought, the furious declaimer against the oppression and tyranny of the popes, should have been animated with the most humane sentiments toward that people?

He mentioned other instances of the same humane feeling; and he said, "After what I have seen of them here, I say, 'Let me fall into the hands of the poor.'" "They who, half-fed, feed the breadless, in the travail of distress; They who, taking from a little, give to those who still have less; They who, needy, yet can pity when they look on greater need; These are Charity's disciples,these are Mercy's sons indeed.

Still, not one of the three hardworking, really civil, and even humane men, who now stood covered in the library of Mr. Effingham, was probably conscious of the impropriety of which he was guilty, or was doing more than insensibly yielding to a vicious and vulgar practice.

But on the smaller estates of olive-yard and vineyard their condition was better, and a humane owner who chose his overseers carefully might possibly reproduce something of the old feeling of participation in the life as well as the industry of the economic unit.

We have become too humane for the triumphs of Cæsar not to be repugnant to our feelings.

Here my friend accosted me with his natural firmness of tone, which before had been considerably subdued by humane emotions, and said "You must breakfast with us.

In our strife in the Philippines, from 1899 to 1902, many of us were proud to be told that we were conducting a "humane war."

This was inconvenient for its victims, but its purpose was humane.

This also was a humane purpose.

the humane calculation was not only made but openly and unhesitatingly avowed that the planters found it upon the whole their most profitable plan to work off (kill with labour) their whole number of slaves about once in seven years, and renew the whole stock."

It says:Even if you could be sure that what you take for vice is soand the history of persecution shows how careful you should be in this preliminary pointeven then it is an undoubted and, indeed, a necessary tendency of this facile repressive legislation, to make those who resort to it neglect the more effective, humane, and durable kinds of preventive legislation.

Italian art recognised their claim to stand beside Madonna and the Saints in the Pantheon of humane culture; but the painters re-made them in accordance with the modern spirit.

Gunpowder, a humane discovery.

Now War becomes the business of the State: The most humane, the most pacific men, Must arm for War, or lose all they hold dear: The sorrows of the Aged, Infant cries, And Female Tears, resistlessly prevail: Can gentlest natures be in love with Peace, When Love, most tender Love, excites to War?

Both the parents, as medical men, agreed that it would be better that the young couple should not live together for two or three years, the very tender age of Bridget, in particular, rendering this humane, as well as discreet.

Cramming was harmful to the student; the elective method was the only humane one.

He was of a nature exceedingly humane and compassionate; easily forgiving injuries, and capable of a prompt and sincere reconciliation with them who had offended him.

The best test of social protective laws is their contribution to a higher independence and to a freer competition on a higher, more worthy, and more humane plane. § 10.