The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-23
THE HUMAN|STS.
Miss Liotard Tells the
Literature Department
About Them.
THE NEW LEARNING
It's influence on Letters, Art
and Politics Dis
cussed.

| WOman'S Gu Literature 0SfAaf-
has discovered, is moi by any means an
easy subject. though the ladies eoaao
| scarcely have chosen a more interesting
| course of study, and each meeting orsngs
| cut as many members as the Kindergarten
| room ait Hasbrouck institute can accom-
| MEDIATE.
Yesterday the subject under discussion
was Influence of the New Learning on
| literature. Art and Politics" which MISS
Marie Liotard started with q paper on
.sThe Humanists,o read by Mrs. Kennedy,
as Miss Liotard was suffering from
| hoarseness. This paper dealt most clever
ly ana Systematically with the subject.
The author stated that what first at
tracted her to the subject was that II
would force her to a great deal of study.
1T Gaas been said read the paper, that
Want a she greatest influence On
Petrarch's life was his meeting Laura, OUT
1t seems to me that his acquaintance wlth
| Cicero and virgil had a still greater erect;
| for great as Petrarch was as a poet, ne
was still greater and his influence reached
much further as the founder OF humanasm
Petrarch was a man of broad views, anu
when he read the works OF the srent
I,afin writers he became azmbued with fhe
leeilns ina hir - - .ho,r style
n oeaufy ana cisa - usna.a
must De restorsa - ~ h,,rssa
works nad oeeA - as1 -. s,,,srv
and oltsmes were ul" "a. $40 ~
the dark ages which preceded this rime 81
sghe revival Of learning. The hunaanisls
are those men "no 49, 49, uo,1a
worKs ana gay ~ieai "a. rarr
f@eIn -.,,.z rzrranists he
These schotars "eie an Aa4 +sev
cause their s'osa was ra,av
coulf 20 seneat WE - 81
worked not for shehaseis
the good OF al ana
Petrarah iueA sham-
orators as teachers saaoatu sass-snv
selves as mnch q possioie. - u.e
OF the rhgnesp ash.r. 70
used by them IN me 'eaehi's m-ra
pursuit 70 which many - 4s,a
lives). was me asH - ~
Hnmarist- Feuaren' as' sa,,a
hunanism. celieceea' sluuasu IL
ed the works OF ahe Laon -um.h
knew no Greek. but appreciaieu rs 49,"
and ii was through mis- ih1nehce .
Boccaccie studied creek
| open that s~torehouse OF CLASSIC
| which their followers explored iuis
| from which they drew sQcn eIsai p1iN
| Humanism as defined 10y Symonos COZ
| sisted i'm a new and vital percepeaeh " ene
| dignity OF man as a rational being aparA
! from Theological determination ana In
the further perception that classic iieera-
ture alone displayed human nature IN lhs
plenitude OF intellectual and moral Tree
dom.
ssrhlrs we understand why the scholars
who headed the movement made me
/ Iatin-Greek authors their examples ana
the subjects of their study. 1t is diflcait
to give a short account OF humanisn, TOT
1t Is really a complicated study.
1T can be divided into four periods,
with more or less marked characteristics.
it may be made the study OF the iives OF
many writers and teachers who are
| classed as humanists. and again the his
tory of the different centers in which these
1 scholars iourished enters as a factor in
/ the study of the subject. I shall attempt
to define the different periods by showing
! what was the result of each, and shall
| give a short account of those men who
have seemed to me TO stand out more
| prominently in that long list Of truly
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