Essays, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus ! Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe , ( the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts , the ...
... universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus ! Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe , ( the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts , the ...
Page 363
... universal , it is impa- tient of working with lame or tied hands , and of making cripples and monsters , such as all pic- tures and statues are . Nothing less than the cre- ation of man and nature is its end . A man should find in it an ...
... universal , it is impa- tient of working with lame or tied hands , and of making cripples and monsters , such as all pic- tures and statues are . Nothing less than the cre- ation of man and nature is its end . A man should find in it an ...
Page 443
... universal soul is the alone cre- ator of the useful and the beautiful ; therefore to make any- thing useful or beautiful the individual must be submitted to the universal mind . " " Art , " Society and Solitude . Page 353 , note 1 ...
... universal soul is the alone cre- ator of the useful and the beautiful ; therefore to make any- thing useful or beautiful the individual must be submitted to the universal mind . " " Art , " Society and Solitude . Page 353 , note 1 ...
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