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...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...

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...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ...EIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. H... ... far behind as one of these clear headed children of the Roman forum and the Greek amphitheatre; and even if they have lost something of the sensation... ...ecific instances. There fore, when he had laid down the principle that every American’s ruling passion is money making, he cast about for an instance,... ... strong in death seems to establish once for all the good old truth that the American cares only for money making; and it was clever of the critic to ... ...t. Therefore the Academy does not simply call to its ranks famous or careful writers, but soldiers as well, bishops, scientists, men of the world, men... ...French view of what are eu phemistically called “the facts of life” (as the Greeks called the Furies the “Ami able Ones”) is often spoken of as thou... ... this link with the past seems too slight to be worth counting, the straight descent of French civilisation from the ancient Mediterranean culture whi... ... matter—and even that, as one of the most acute among their recent political writers has said, “on condition that each man commands.” Their past histo...