American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, Volume 2Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 - 1120 pages |
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Page 308
... mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities to- gether and gets a result - such as it is . My mind creates ! Do you get the force of that ? Creates anything it desires - and in a moment . Creates without ...
... mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities to- gether and gets a result - such as it is . My mind creates ! Do you get the force of that ? Creates anything it desires - and in a moment . Creates without ...
Page 599
... mind to mind , even in ex- pressing the same routine of nature . The imagination which eventually runs to fine art or religion is the same faculty which , under a more direct control of external events , yields vulgar perception . The ...
... mind to mind , even in ex- pressing the same routine of nature . The imagination which eventually runs to fine art or religion is the same faculty which , under a more direct control of external events , yields vulgar perception . The ...
Page 601
... mind must live on its own terms , and think in them ; it is not inferior to what surrounds it ; fact - worship on ... Mind was not created for the sake of discovering the absolute truth . The absolute truth has its own in- tangible ...
... mind must live on its own terms , and think in them ; it is not inferior to what surrounds it ; fact - worship on ... Mind was not created for the sake of discovering the absolute truth . The absolute truth has its own in- tangible ...
Contents
AMERICAN LITERATURE 18601900 | 1 |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 15 |
Whispers of Heavenly Death | 102 |
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