The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans
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Beauty consists of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative, circum
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No doubt for the average man nationalism is no more than one of the faiths that live together in actual if illogical partnership i
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I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by know
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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,
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The American Civil War was the first modern war. It is true that the Crimean War, some eight years earlier, has resemblances with
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Both Hopkins and Lawrence were religious not just in the ritualistic sense but in the sense of being obsessed with the word--the w
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Freud was, in effect, trying to take the mystery out of myth. Once it was decoded as a history of the unconscious, all was explain
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Sir Walter Raleigh might well be studied, if only for the excellence of his style, for he is remarkable in the midst of so many ma
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