DOI Kapitel:
Chapter XI Influences, Going and Coming
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tanism that has gained in grace and
goodness through native development
and happy alien contacts. How often
we have mumbled an ancient shibbo-
leth to the effect that art and morality
have nothing in common! On the
contrary, they have the one supreme
aspiration of human beings in com-
mon ; the benefit of the race. It is
the little artist who proclaims himself
different from other men, and so not
subject to their laws; the great artist
strives to bring his personality and his
work into harmony with the best that
he knows of human effort. Magnani-
mous men and women unconsciously
reveal their longing that their work
may live after them for the happiness
of mankind. Ward on his death-bed,
finally assured that all is well with the
great equestrian that had engaged his
last thoughts, whispers to his wife,
“Now I can go in peace.” Saint-Gau-
dens in the later pages of his Memoirs
GOING AND COMING
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tanism that has gained in grace and
goodness through native development
and happy alien contacts. How often
we have mumbled an ancient shibbo-
leth to the effect that art and morality
have nothing in common! On the
contrary, they have the one supreme
aspiration of human beings in com-
mon ; the benefit of the race. It is
the little artist who proclaims himself
different from other men, and so not
subject to their laws; the great artist
strives to bring his personality and his
work into harmony with the best that
he knows of human effort. Magnani-
mous men and women unconsciously
reveal their longing that their work
may live after them for the happiness
of mankind. Ward on his death-bed,
finally assured that all is well with the
great equestrian that had engaged his
last thoughts, whispers to his wife,
“Now I can go in peace.” Saint-Gau-
dens in the later pages of his Memoirs
GOING AND COMING