Literary notes about Endowment (AI summary)
The word “endowment” carries a rich duality in literature, referring both to an intrinsic, often natural, capacity or quality and to a tangible legacy of resources conveyed to support institutions. On one hand, it is used to denote inherent attributes or talents—suggesting natural aptitudes, intuition, or even moral character ([1],[2],[3],[4])—while on the other, it denotes financial gifts or property that create foundations for schools, churches, or other communal benefits ([5],[6],[7],[8]). This dual usage reinforces the idea that both the innate qualities of an individual and the material contributions to society serve as cornerstones of personal and collective achievement ([9],[10],[11]).
- It is, indeed, said that thinking is a congenital endowment, not to be learned from rules.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - Only thus may he fully express the hidden wealth of his individual endowment.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - The rewards of professional life are gauged primarily by character and native endowment, and are, to this extent, open to the children of workmen.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Your child will be the greatest credit and satisfaction to you if he becomes that for which his natural endowment and inclination is strongest.
— from Miller's Mind training for children Book 1 (of 3) A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses by William Emer Miller - The last time I saw him, which was a few months before he died, he gave me fifty thousand dollars toward our endowment fund.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington - Its famous Polytechnic Institute is an endowment of the last Patroon, Stephen Van Rensselaer, who was Troy's steady benefactor.
— from America, Volume 3 (of 6) by Joel Cook - The endowment of the association which manages the work now amounts to $85,000.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III - If we add to this our endowment fund, which at present is $1,000,000, the value of the total property is now $1,700,000.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington - On the basis of this his residual endowment, he has to conceive all nature, with whatever experiences may have fallen there to the lot of others.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Could each person fulfil his own nature the most striking differences in endowment and fortune would trouble nobody's dreams.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - This endowment, which made them dominate their contemporaries, could also reveal the sources and conditions of their own will.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
