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... true , the Saturday Review maintains that our epoch of transformation is finished ; that we have found our philosophy ; that the British nation has searched all anchorages for the spirit , and has finally PREFACE . 9.
... true , the Saturday Review maintains that our epoch of transformation is finished ; that we have found our philosophy ; that the British nation has searched all anchorages for the spirit , and has finally PREFACE . 9.
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... true goal of all of us , to the ideal , to perfection , -to beauty , in a word , which is only truth seen from another side ? —nearer , perhaps , than all the science of Tübingen . Adorable dreamer , whose heart has been so romantic ...
... true goal of all of us , to the ideal , to perfection , -to beauty , in a word , which is only truth seen from another side ? —nearer , perhaps , than all the science of Tübingen . Adorable dreamer , whose heart has been so romantic ...
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... true that criticism is really , in itself , a baneful and injurious employment ; is it true that all time given to writing critiques on the works of others would be much better employed if it were given to original composition , of ...
... true that criticism is really , in itself , a baneful and injurious employment ; is it true that all time given to writing critiques on the works of others would be much better employed if it were given to original composition , of ...
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... True ; but in assenting to this proposition , one or two things are to be kept in mind . It is undeni- able that the exercise of a creative power , that a free creative activity , is the highest function of man ; it is proved to be so ...
... True ; but in assenting to this proposition , one or two things are to be kept in mind . It is undeni- able that the exercise of a creative power , that a free creative activity , is the highest function of man ; it is proved to be so ...
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... true , yet true by comparison with that which it displaces ; to make the best ideas prevail . Presently these new ideas reach society , the touch of truth is the touch of life , and there is a stir and growth everywhere ; out of this ...
... true , yet true by comparison with that which it displaces ; to make the best ideas prevail . Presently these new ideas reach society , the touch of truth is the touch of life , and there is a stir and growth everywhere ; out of this ...
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