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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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lasses. The proposition is not funda-mental enough to suit our views, but it is certainlya step in the right direction and something thatmerits and should receive the consideration of allearnest men, no matter how conservative they maybe, who appreciate the growing power of the privi-leged classes that hold the circulating medium of thenation in their hands. We wish to say in connection with Professor Par-sons admirable paper, The Railway Empire,which appeared in the January number, that thisimportant subject is greatly amplified and treatedin a luminous and exhaustive manner in ProfessorParsons new work, The Railways, the Trusts andthe People, now on the press and being publishedby Dr. C. F. Taylor, 1520 Chestnut street, Phila-delphia, Pennsylvania. This work on The Rail-ways, the Trusts and the People will be the most ex-haustive and valuable book on the subject that hasyet appeared, and should be in the possession ofevery reader of The Arena. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google
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,,i,,. I.) Summ , Gaocictowa, T PROFESSOR ROBERT T. KERLIN, M.A. Digitized by Google * We do not take po$$ession of our ideas, but are possessed by them.They master us and force us into the arena,Where, like gladiators, we must fight for them.—Hbins. The Arena Vol. S5 Mabch, 1906 No. 196 MAIN CURRENTS OF THOUGHT IN THE NINE-TEENTH CENTURY. By Prof. Robert T. Kerun, A.M. i. MODERN thought, like modern life,is strikingly complex, flowing ininnumerable channels, with diverse ed-dies and strangle backward turningsand thwart currents. It suggests anocean with vast ebbs and flows andmysteriously winding streams, tendingdefinitely no whither, rather than a greatriver system into which all the fountainsand rivulets of a continent pour theirindependent contributions under com-pulsion of one general inclination of theland. And yet a broad survey will revealthat the latter is the truer image, asbelievers in human progress will be pre-disposed to admit. There is a move-ment of mind in our great

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