Olympus And Fuji Yama : a Study in Transcendental History
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Is it not the story of the American people ? While they dream of noble things to be, they let them wait. They will wait for 28 OLYMPUS AND FUJI YAMA. beautiful cities, and in the meanwhile their cities become so hideous that they must be razed before beauty is possible. They will wait for a great literature, and in the meanwhile their newspapers and cheap magazines are vul- garizing the minds of the people, destroying their language. They will wait for high national ideals, and in the meanwhile... individualism, more perfectly developed than ever before since the decadence of Rome, caring nothing for country or state or city, destroys morality in business, and makes legislators and public officials corrupt to an extent that, after revela- tion upon revelation, is even now but faintly realized. " Every moment," said one of the wisest philo- sophers of the nineteenth century, " some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual ex- citement is irresistibly real and attractive for us — -for that moment only.
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