Echo
ek'o, in Greek mythology, a beautiful nymph of the woodland hills. She was an attendant upon Artemis, the huntress. Her chief failing was a habit of talking too much and of insisting on having the last word. One day Hera was seeking her wayward husband, Zeus, whom she had reason to believe was disporting himself among the nymphs. Echo managed to detain Hera in conversation until Zeus made his escape. In her anger Hera deprived Echo of all power of speech save reply, that is, she left her only the last word. Echo fell in love with a beautiful youth named Narcissus. She followed him in the chase, waiting for him to speak that she might reply. At length the opportunity came, but Narcissus did not return her love. In her grief she faded and pined away until nothing was left but her voice, which may still be heard wandering in the mountains, speaking only when spoken to, and replying only in the exact words of the speaker.
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Echo
A daughter of the Air and Tellus, who was one of Juno 's attendants. She was deprived of speech by Juno, but was allowed to reply to questions put to her.
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Echo D'Outre Tombe (Journal)
(See France .) Eckartshausen, K. Von : Author of The Cloud on the Sanctuary (1800). Eckartshausen, by birth and education an intensely religious man, at first wrote several little books of devotion that had great vogue in France and Germany . He later turned his attention to larger works of a more profound character, such as that mentioned above. According to Eckartshausen the requisite faculty of true communion with the church is the inward conception of things spiritual and with this sense present, is possible the beginning of Regeneration understood as the process of gradually eliminating original sin. His work on the Interior Church is in two parts: first, elucidation of his doctrine; second, a series of dogmas or assertions derived therefrom.
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Ecliptic
the apparent annual path of the sun through the heavens. There are as many stars in the sky in the daytime as at night, only we cannot see them. The sun is in company with stars all the time, only we cannot see them. By a careful study of the heavens we shall see that the stars that apparently travel, rise, and set with the sun in December were not his companions in November and will not be his attendants in January, but will be with him in December again. The stars in a belt running entirely around the heavens in a great circle take turns in accompanying the sun; or, put in another way, the sun seems to go around this belt once a year. As a matter of fact the earth goes around the sun, but, by watching the stars, it seems to us that the sun is passing around the heavens. When one rides in a train, a telegraph pole, a distant tree, or a hill seems to pass along the landscape, when in reality the tree and the landscape are at rest, and the observer is moving. So in our case, the sun and heavens are at rest,--we are moving. The line which the sun seems to follow round and round each year is called the ecliptic. A belt of stars lying along both sides of the ecliptic is called the zodiac. See Zodiac ; Constellation ; Stars
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Eclogue
ek'log, as commonly used, a pastoral poem in which shepherds are introduced as conversing with one another. The word originally meant "selections," or "elegant extracts." In this sense it was applied often to poems of the same form. The satires of Horace, for instance, were called eclogues. The bucolics or pastoral poems of Virgil were called eclogues, probably by grammarians, and not by Virgil himself. Since Virgil's beautiful poems were called eclogues the term has come to signify a poem which is not only of a pastoral nature, but which is elegant in form, highly wrought, and exquisitely finished.
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Economic Association
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Eddy
MARY BAKER GLOVER, an American reformer; born in Bow, N. H.; received a public school education, and was connected with the C Congregational Church till 1866, when she discovered what are known as the principles of istian Science. In 1867 she began to teach them, and in 1879 founded the Church of Christ (Christian Scientist) in Boston, Mass. In 1881 she was ordained to the ministry nistry; in the same year ; established the Massachusetts Metaphysical College in Boston; and in 1883 started the "Christian Science Journal." She is the author of "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures" (the Christian Science text-book); and numerous other works. She died Dec. 3, 1910. See CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
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Eddy (SPENCER an American diplomat)
SPENCER, an American diplomat, born in Chicago, Ill., in 1874. He graduated from Harvard University in 1896. He took post-graduate studies in Germany. In 1897-1898 he acted as private secretary of the late John Hay, while the latter was ambassador to Great Britain. In 1899 he was appointed 3d secretary of the American Embassy at London. He served successively in the embassies of Paris, Constantinople, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. In 1908-1909 he was Minister to Argentina, and in 1909 was Minister to Rumania, Serbia, and He resigned to enter the Bulgaria. Naval Reserve lieutenant-commander, and during the World War was engaged in active service. oup of gneiss
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