On Some of Life's Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings : What Makes Life SignificantH. Holt, 1913 - 94 pages |
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abridged absolutely ancestral blindness anesthesia barren beauty bird BLINDNESS IN HUMAN Broadway bull's-eye Chautauqua cheerful cloud cold common courage cross crowd culture dark dead depth divinity drearily surrounded duties endurance essen eternal eyes fact fellow-lives felt fill going gray happiness heart hence heroism hour high human nature ideal novelty impor inner joy inner meaning insight intense Jack Jill Jill's kind labor lantern lantern-bearer lecture life's ideals light lives loafer look man's marriage miss the joy moral mysterious nature in extremis ness never nificance nightingale omnibus-top one's outer pass Phillips Brooks poet poor posi poverty rapture religious rest riven romanticism savage scale secret seems sell sense sight significance singing sort soul Stevenson stumps sure sweat talk things Thou hast thought tion toil Tolstoï top-coat trees truth uncon University of Iowa virtue vital Whitman WILLIAM JAMES wonder Wordsworth worth