While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from firs...t to last, a boorish, awkward poseur.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of the... highest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a... nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »