Word: unreasons
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GRAVES (Robert) Poetic Unreason...
...probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make the best of it, send their pupils after moonbeams, chimera and the blood-sweating behemoth...
...that brilliant but elusive lady who flashes about the dilettant magazines in purple seas of color-reproduction under the pseudonym of "Fish." The other illustrator, also an Englishwoman, is Hope Weston, who says she has tried to dip her paintbrush in star stuff to do justice to the "illumined unreason" of the Persian singer...
...passed by Congress, it is almost certain to be vetoed. Even in the almost inconceivable event of its final success, it can only land us in hopeless confusion at home and abroad. To attempt to employ such a substitute as this argues more than the usual degree of Senatorial unreason. As a piece of political juggling, it is altogether admirable; as constructive statesmanship, it is beneath contempt...
...seeing whether the nature forces as moved by the Eternal Power give actual help to the desires of men. An examination of the help which individuals and nations find from nature shows that the more reasonable men are, and the better their organization, the more help nature gives. With unreason and with isolation we find no sign of sympathy. Nature however seems to have no complete power to satisfy man. His desire grows by what it feeds on. But if men turn from the works of God to God Himself they find new help and satisfaction in Him. We have...