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the accusation (or the compliment) of transcendentalism.
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
It is too much the custom in politics to describe a political opponent as utterly inhuman, as utterly careless of his country, as utterly cynical, which no man ever was since the beginning of the world.
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
Thus, while the world is almost always condemned in summary, it is always justified, and indeed extolled, in detail after detail.
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
This is, indeed, the strongest argument for the religious conception of life. If the dignity of man is an earthly dignity we shall be tempted to deny his earthly degradation. If it is a heavenly dignity we can admit the earthly degradation
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
Evolution (the sinister enemy of revolution) does not especially deny the existence of God; what it does deny is the existence of man.
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
is always desperately endeavouring to represent that he is inept, that he makes a fool of himself, that he is disagreeable and disgraceful and untrustworthy.
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
The truth is that Byron was one of a class who may be called the unconscious optimists, who are very often, indeed, the most uncompromising conscious pessimists, because the exuberance of their nature demands for an adversary a dragon as big as the world.
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago
Its merit is not that it is orderly and explicable; its merit is that it is wild and utterly unexplained.
Michael Schaffner added 5mo ago