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... Culture The capital defect in the culture of These States is the lack of a civilized aristoc- racy , secure in its position , animated by an intelligent curiosity , skeptical of all facile generalizations , superior to the ...
... Culture The capital defect in the culture of These States is the lack of a civilized aristoc- racy , secure in its position , animated by an intelligent curiosity , skeptical of all facile generalizations , superior to the ...
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... culture of a nation is not truly figured in the image of the current . A culture is not a flow , nor even a confluence ; the form of its existence is struggle , or at least debate - it is nothing if not a di- alectic . And in any ...
... culture of a nation is not truly figured in the image of the current . A culture is not a flow , nor even a confluence ; the form of its existence is struggle , or at least debate - it is nothing if not a di- alectic . And in any ...
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... culture ? Or , to put the question properly , what is the meaning of culture for poetry ? All the great poets become the material of what we popularly call culture ; we study them to acquire it . It is clear that Ad- dison was more ...
... culture ? Or , to put the question properly , what is the meaning of culture for poetry ? All the great poets become the material of what we popularly call culture ; we study them to acquire it . It is clear that Ad- dison was more ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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