Repository: UIHistories Project: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907) [PAGE 23]

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divisions, and to the artist, and moreover, their arv artist, he assigned the place „fgr« < <t-f!Wi v i <

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while others lag. What 1 ivinthe vistas {D*-m» oratic Vistas) has its main bearing on ims inativ<

literature, especially poetry, the stock of all. In t h e department of science, and the specialty of journalism, there appear, in these states, promises, perhaps fulfilments, of highest earnestness, reality, ai 1 life. These, of course, are modern. But in the reiiri of imaginative, spinal and essential attributes, something equivalent to creation is, for our age and land-. imperatively demanded. For not only is it Dot enough that the new blood, new frame of democracy shall be vivified and held together merely by poli ical means, superficial suffrage, legislation, e t c , bul it is clear to me that, unless it goes deeper, gets at least as firm and as warm a hold in men's h arts, emotions and belief, as, in their days, feudalism i ecclesiasticism, and inaugurates its own perennial sources, welling from the center forever, its strength will be defective, its growth doubt fid, and its mam charm wanting. " And tin's magnificent literature to 1)0 soirnj da\ so significant, what is it to be? First of all it „,„ | | a reflection of Nature. -Democracy M I „f , n M

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