The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across
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Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us--that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt t
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At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater an
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in A
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock- market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of de
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What a long strange trip it's been.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
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