For feudalism, caste, the ecclesiastic traditions, though palpably retreating from political institutions, still hold essentially, by their spirit, even in this country, entire possession of the more important fields, indeed the very subsoil, of education,... Specimen Days & Collect - Page 191by Walt Whitman - 1882 - 374 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1875 - 800 lehte
...recognised by the world. It has still to vindicate its position, to claim its rightful authority. He sees that " Democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil...until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of arts, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that- exists, or that has been produced anywhere in... | |
| 1875 - 810 lehte
...recognised by the world. It has still to vindicate its position, to claim its rightful authority. He sees that " Democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own form's of arts, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1883 - 390 lehte
...with equal rights guaranteed to even the poorest and humblest of our forty millions of people—we can, with a manly pride akin to that which Admitting...that while so many voices, pens, minds, in the press, lecture-rooms, in our Congress, &c., are discussing intellectual topics, pecuniary dangers, legislative... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1888 - 212 lehte
...and has fill'd up the back-waters, and establish'd something like an approach to uniform success." . even in this country, entire possession of the more...luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, \ poems, schools, theoTogy, displacing all that exists, or that has been lEroduced_ anywhere^ in the past, under opposite... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 348 lehte
...education and of social standards and literature." From this proposition he advances to the assertion that "Democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil...until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of arts, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1901 - 566 lehte
...sociologies, original, transcendental, and expressing (what, in highest sense, are not yet express' d at all,) democracy and the modern. With these, and...that while so many voices, pens, minds, in the press, lecture-rooms, in our Congress, &c., are discussing intellectual topics, pecuniary dangers, legislative... | |
| Laurie Magnus - 1902 - 200 lehte
...which she is identified has not yet appeared. . . . From this proposition he advances to the assertion that ' democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil...anywhere in the past under opposite influences.'" Whitman, therefore, revolted from tradition of set design and purpose. With the music of poets in his... | |
| William English Walling - 1913 - 452 lehte
...democracyjand bund up a new society only through an actual conflict of the new civilization with the old: "For feudalism, caste, the ecclesiastic traditions,...anywhere in the past, under opposite influences." (Italics mine.) 4 Fundamentally Socialism means, not merely a political ~ and economic revolution,... | |
| William English Walling - 1913 - 460 lehte
...democracy and build up a new society only through an actual conflict of the new civilization with the old : "For feudalism, caste, the ecclesiastic traditions,...schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that IMS been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences." (Italics mine.) 4 Fundamentally... | |
| 1915 - 884 lehte
...world. 'Democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil,' he says, ' until it founds and luxuriously grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology,...anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.' This is consoling. We had begun to fear that the new democratic era was to have no art, and I cannot... | |
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