... the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature tastes mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always with us, and merciless scorn... Variations - Page 120by James Huneker - 1921 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1910 - 392 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always... | |
| William James - 1910 - 32 pages
...pain-and-fear economy—for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean—and the whole atmosphere of presentday Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bit-ter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always... | |
| William James - 1910 - 32 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of presentday utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always... | |
| Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an easeeconomy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always... | |
| James Huneker - 1917 - 386 pages
...shallow? It need be neither sordid nor didactic. William James put the matter in a nutshell when he wrote that "the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian...people who still keep a sense of life's more bitter flavours." And on this fundamentally sound note I must end my little sermon — for I find that I have... | |
| Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Willard Higley Durham - 1917 - 386 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of present-day Utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always... | |
| 1909 - 512 pages
...economy — for those of us who live in an ease-economy are but an island in the stormy ocean — and the whole atmosphere of presentday utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors. It suggests, in truth, ubiquitous inferiority. Inferiority is always... | |
| T. J. Jackson Lears - 1994 - 397 pages
...Lord or fear of the enemy; they seemed concerned only with this-worldly well-being. As James said, "the whole atmosphere of present-day utopian literature...mawkish and dishwatery to people who still keep a sense for life's more bitter flavors." Drawing on the economic theories of Simon Nelson Patten, James suggested... | |
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