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Title: Men and thought in modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Scott, Ernest, 1868-
Subjects: Political science
Publisher: Melbourne : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mphasising and record-ing in the most effective way some strongly felt interestor affection. Where there is neither interest nor desireto record with good effect there is but sham art, or noneat all. Where both these are fully present, no matter howrudely and inarticulately, there is great art.—SamuelButler. In nothing does conservatism do so much harm as inart. Art is one of the manifestations of spiritual life inman; therefore as when an animal lives it breathes, it givesout the constituents of breath, so also if humanity is aliveit displays the activity of art, and so at each moment artmust be contemporaneous—i.e., the art of our own time.One must know where to find it (not in the decadents ofmusic, poetry and romance), but one ought not to look forit in the past but in the present. People who wish to showoff as connoisseurs of art, and for this purpose praise onlythe classical art of the past and revile that of to-day, simplyprove that they are not sensitive to art.—Tolstoy.
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WOODROW WILSON. (Photograph : Undtrwood and Underwood) (Page 316 Chapter XXIII. WOODROW WILSON AND THE LEAGUEOF NATIONS. OF the twenty-eight Presidents who have held officein the United States of America, very few havebeen men of personal distinction. The first four—Washington, John Adams, Jefferson and Madi-son—had been tried by the stern ordeal of the revolutionarywar, and owed their elevation to valuable public ser-vice. But after them came a commonplace procession ofinferior politicians, thrown up on the beach by the wavesof party storm. Who now knows or cares to know any-thing about the personality of James K. Polk or FranklinPearce? asks Lord Bryce,1 and the same question mightbe asked about John Tylor, Zachary Taylor, Martin vanBuren, and the whole of the remainder till we come to Lin-coln in 1861. There was, indeed, a man of quality. Grant,too, was eminent as a soldier, though he proved to be aweak and mischievous president. After him the highestoffice in the gift of the g

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