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...true leadership. In order that he may draw his followers on to something greater and better, the leader must have a definite vision firmly fixed in his thought: he should look forward, not back, and, like Moses, Paul, Napoleon, Bismarck and Lincoln, must be not a traditionalist but an idealist...
Henry Worthington, Idealist, by Margaret Sherwood, published by the Macmillan Company. Price...
...Cambridge Idealist: Rev. David N. Beach. By George R. Cook...
First among the deeper aspects he sees the demand for the idealist. On the surface it seems just the opposite, but beneath it in the deeper movement of the inner life through which God has guided every age, he sees that if there is anything manifest it is the inadequacy of the material life...
...lines, continued the lecturer, no one speaks them in our day as Mr. Booth did. He spoke in verse as if it were his native tongue, and his voice vibrated not only on the ear but on the soul. He was the last idealist in tragedy. Mr. Irving poses as an idealist, but no one can see him in "Louis XI," or "Dubosc," without thinking what a very realistic idealist he must be. Mr. Irving's speaking of the text in Hamlet, as wherever this actor is called upon to utter blank verse, is by turns sing-songy and jirkily...