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Men of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries looked back to the immediately preceding centuries--especially the fourth, fifth, and sixth--as to the epoch of the Founders of their civilization. Among these Founders whom Professor Rand has chosen as most significant for later developments are St. Ambrose, the Mystic...
These words did not seem out of character to those who knew Dr. Jones or to those (of whom there are altogether well over 300,000) who had read his book. The Christ of the Indian Road is a simple unfolding of a brilliant idea, to wit: Christ as a...
Despite the faults which captious critics have discovered in his writings, the fame of Author Hardy has never wavered or grown thin. While other authors have been hailed, forgotten, rediscovered, his honor has had a steady, splendid growth. Perhaps there is a rocky artifice in his style, a misfit melodrama...
Naturally, a book of this scope has its deficiencies. For example, though containing an estimate of Henry Adams's historical philosophy, the equally significant work of Brooks on Adams is neglected. One feels a lack of understanding in the author's treatment of Poe, and also a hint of the...
President Lowell arbitrarily classes American colleges into two types--vocational and cultural. In recognition of this distinction, one may hope, lies the remedy, for, if higher education, as it is understood in the vocational universities, is eminently practical, it can not be objected to as being over idealistic. A man...