The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Supreme utterance is always poetic utterance , deeply human , deeply relig- ious , and as fresh and daring as the dawn . Such utterance may come un- taught . But if the conscious power for such utterance is the possession of the few ...
Supreme utterance is always poetic utterance , deeply human , deeply relig- ious , and as fresh and daring as the dawn . Such utterance may come un- taught . But if the conscious power for such utterance is the possession of the few ...
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Beau- ty and truth that do not reach religion do not reach the human heart . An edu- cation that lacks religion must lack authority , because it cannot know who made the flat - headed adder , who flies with the wild duck , who works in ...
Beau- ty and truth that do not reach religion do not reach the human heart . An edu- cation that lacks religion must lack authority , because it cannot know who made the flat - headed adder , who flies with the wild duck , who works in ...
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Human nature is unique , and not to be handled by machine . It is active , a doing nature , fit for unfinished earth , not heaven , the earth - partner , and co- creator in God's slowly shaping world . Send human nature to school ?
Human nature is unique , and not to be handled by machine . It is active , a doing nature , fit for unfinished earth , not heaven , the earth - partner , and co- creator in God's slowly shaping world . Send human nature to school ?
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A large part of the work of the novelist consists of creating human beings . What they say and what they think are as impor- tant as what they physically do . And there is a limit to the mental movement that can be conveniently or even ...
A large part of the work of the novelist consists of creating human beings . What they say and what they think are as impor- tant as what they physically do . And there is a limit to the mental movement that can be conveniently or even ...
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And the camels , — thousands of them , some going up , some coming down , a mass of human and animal life . Above you , moving figures against the keen blue sky , or deep below you in the ravines . The camels were swaying along with ...
And the camels , — thousands of them , some going up , some coming down , a mass of human and animal life . Above you , moving figures against the keen blue sky , or deep below you in the ravines . The camels were swaying along with ...
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