The Condition of ManHarcourt, Brace & World, 1944 - 467 pages |
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Page 77
... classic culture knew only how to fight a delaying action : they were incapable of inventing the strategy for a new campaign . 2 : An Autumn Day in Ostia All the poignant conflicts between the old classic and the new Christian culture ...
... classic culture knew only how to fight a delaying action : they were incapable of inventing the strategy for a new campaign . 2 : An Autumn Day in Ostia All the poignant conflicts between the old classic and the new Christian culture ...
Page 107
... classic heritage were not final . There were many sane , lucid , waking moments , even gay , joyous moments , as the reader of Helen Waddell's admirable study of The Wandering Scholar will recall . As a child who goes to sleep will ...
... classic heritage were not final . There were many sane , lucid , waking moments , even gay , joyous moments , as the reader of Helen Waddell's admirable study of The Wandering Scholar will recall . As a child who goes to sleep will ...
Page 181
... classic treatises and memorized the classic rules . Classic taste meant obedience to stereotyped formulae : now the worker , as Ruskin well pointed out , must conform to a higher authority and utilize his skill in mechanical imitation ...
... classic treatises and memorized the classic rules . Classic taste meant obedience to stereotyped formulae : now the worker , as Ruskin well pointed out , must conform to a higher authority and utilize his skill in mechanical imitation ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PRELUDE TO AN ERA | 17 |
THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSON | 52 |
Copyright | |
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