Sublime

Charles Eliot Norton,

The creative person was even a metonym of the democratic society itself.

She thought of him as a source of knowledge rather than experience; a good, though not contemporary mind, a person rather than a man.

people get older they get more alike in character and appearance and could all be leading the same life.

An implication will be that Sternberg, as an emblem—or synecdochical appendage—of his generation, will countenance, in his future, The Future.

He associated the human mind and its capacity for thought with activity and energy. He hated the passive notion of the mind as a blank slate. He concentrated instead on the individual’s sources of power, on access to the central fires that ignite the mind. His main image of the creative mind is of a volcano.

Stokowski was protecting his angel all through his life, preventing it from being written into the wrong tale, which might have killed it. And Freud, at twenty-nine, before he had made a single mark or hit upon a single one of his lasting ideas, already knew the art of disguise. What prompted that protective/destructive fire but prescience of what

epistemology

anomie