It originated among a small group of intellectuals who were reacting against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of man and nature. ... Nature gives the alert man fresh images and metaphors for language, providing the man with discipline to devote himself to its study ultimate power: "one after another, his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things, until all the world becomes, at last, only a realized will,.... the double of the man". ... He himself rejected money and possesions, thi...

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For Plato, the physical things of the world must have bodily form. ... And, for Pieper, God's role in the life of every individual and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and love are the ways by which human beings understood truth. ... Henry David Thoreau had gone to Walden Pond, a small body of water outside Concord, Massachusetts, in order to write a book dedicated to his dead brother. ... Philosophy is in a sense inescapable: life confronts every thoughtful person with some philosophical questions, and nearly everyone is often guided by philosophical assum...

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Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. ... This newly formed gathering of people followed in Smith's steps as he set out to spread his word, and time and time again, in many various small towns and communities the Mormon members were teased and exiled from neighbors. ... His comfort lied in informing the people that the same God that they prayed, to was also shaking things up in Europe (Marty, Page 11...

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.  Balanced compositions-- the arrangement of things like lines, colors and form were seemingly "correct".  Ancient Roman ideals were the inspiration for many works in Italy.  Larger than life figures appear in German art.  Dutch works of art began to show hints of daily life (hunting, farming) rather than religious themes.  French art featured clean simplicity. ... The humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the di...

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