“Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.” SoulFactsBeautifulArtistProcessMankindCreationPureArtisticFullnessBeautiful SoulArtistic Process Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses
“If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.” IfsWorldShouldMeanIdeasWholeEarthWhiteRaceMankindDivineTriumphRejoiceAristocracyWhite Race Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses
“To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.” ArtBeautifulRealizingModernMankindExampleCivilizationNobleSupremeChiefsAbstractFacultyHumaneRadianceRealize Life Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
