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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (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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igher demands of life. While there was a time when the thought of the peoplenecessarily had to be given chiefly to theprovision of creature comforts and theacquiring of material means, that dayhas passed and the hour has arrivedwhen, if the Republic is to take its placeamong the peoples who build on solidfoundations, the material demands mustyield to those things which nourish manon the higher plane of his being—to theculture and development of the ethical,esthetic and rational sides of life; tospiritual, artistic and philosophical orscientific advance. Utility is vital toprogress, but utility, if made a be-alland end-all, is fatal to true greatness;and the time has come in this great andrich young land when the ideal of justiceor the concept of the Golden Rule, withits creed of all for all, or the greatestgood for all, must take the place of theideal of war or victory at the expense ofothers ruin—the creed of every man 198 Elmer Grey and His Dream of a New-World Architecture. 199
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G. W. WATTLES RESIDENCE, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. MYRON HUNT A ELMER GREY, ARCHITECTS. for himself ; and this noble ethical con-cept must be companioned by the culti-vation of art or appreciation for the beau-tiful, in order to satisfy the profoundyearnings of mans nature for satisfactionin such a way that the soul shall be nour-ished. There is a beauty that exalts andrefines, and there is a counterfeit beautythat ministers to the lower side of life,educating men downward rather thanupward. The new demand is that wehave a noble art for America that shallbe instinct with moral idealism; an artthat first of all is sincere and true andwhose atmosphere shall be wholesomeand uplifting as are the glories of natureand the great masters works of a Phidias,a Michael Angelo, a Raphael, a Bach, or GILBERT E. PERKINS RESIDENCE PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. MYRON HUNT A ELMER GREY, ARCHITECTS. a Wagner; an art that shall be worthy ofthe masters of other days who wroughtthe greatest creations in architecture

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