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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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luence on the side of wrong, of injus-tice, of oppression and of corruption, orto do violence to his convictions of righton any question. In the case of Mr. Handy, unless wewholly mistake the real man, his answeris merely the voicing of the youthful in-tellect not yet awakened to a recognitionof the august duties and demands of lifein a republic in a great crucial period likeour own. He possesses the artistic tem-perament. From his countenance weshould say without hesitation that he be-longs among the idealists rather thanamong the sordid materialists to whomthe vision never comes, to whom poetrymakes no appeal, and to whom the voiceof lofty patriotism or the clarion tones ofduty are as an idle wind down the barrenmountain-side. Unless we are greatlymistaken, the time is not far distant whenthe general awakening now in progressfrom the Atlantic to tike Pacific will callto the service of justice and civic right-eousness our artist, together with hun-dreds of thousands of Americas young
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