Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume04 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 04
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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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nestly prophesied, will become livingrealities in the future. Remember it took three hundredyears to build an Egyptian pyramid. Allowing four gener-ations to a century we have twelve generations of men whopassed their lives in that one achievement. Was not thework of those who first evened the ground and laid thefoundation-stones as important as of those who laid the cap-stones at last? Let us, then, begin in our day by the discus-sion of these vital principles of social science, to even theground and lay the foundation-stones for the greatest won-der the world is yet to see,—a man in whom the appetites,the passions, the emotions are all held in allegiance to theirrightful sovereign, Reason. The true words and deeds ofsuccessive generations will build up this glorified humanity,;fairer than any Parian marble, grander than any colossalsculpture of the East, more exalted than spire or dome,boundless in capacity, in aspiration, limitless as space. Digitized by VjOOQIC Digitizedby VjOCK
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Digitized by VjOOQIC MY HOME LIFE. BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS. It has been suggested to me that an article descriptive ofmy ways and doings at home might be acceptable to readersof this journal; and it has furthermore been proposed that Ishould write the said article myself. There is a straightfor-ward simplicity of purpose about this proposition which com-mends it to me. Also, it has the recommendation of beingquite novel. As a rule, the person whose home life is to be made thesubject of an article is interviewed by a gentleman ofthe press, who cross-exanjines the victim like an old Baileycounsel, and proceeds to take an inventory of his furniture,like a bailiff. Now, it seems to me that the conditions under which sucha visit is paid and received are radically unsatisfactory. Theperson interviewed must be more or less uncomfortably self-conscious, and one cannot help doubting whether the inter-viewer ever succeeds in seeing his subject and his subjectssurroundings in exactly their normal d

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