The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--...Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intel...lectually and politically paralyzed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is bot...h natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and esse...ntially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »