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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ion of individuality, disintegration of its cements, areturn to universal life. Let us note, in passing, the strangely singular fact of adeparted soul declaring that death is always the cessation ofindividuality! There are whole pages of this kind. Eugene Nus had, ascompanions in his experiments, Antony M6ray, Toussenel,Franchot, Courbebaisse, a whole group of transcendentalsocialists. Well, this is absolutely the language of Fourier.The words aroma, passional, solidarity, clavier, composite,association, harmony, pivotal force, are in the vocabulary ofthe table. The author therefore inclines towards the follow-ing explanation, as given in his Choses de 1Outre Monde(Things of the Other World), Volume I. Paris, 1887. Mysterious forces residing in human nature; emanations from inmostpotentiality, unknown till our day; the duplication of our experimentalpower, which gives ability to think and act outside ourselves. (To be concluded in July Arena.) Digitized by VjOOQIC Digitized by VjOOQIC
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Digitized by VjOOQIC !TIE CHIVALRY OF THE PEESS. BY JULIUS CHAMBERS. In the splendid days of Rome, the editor was he whointroduced the gladiators as they entered the arena to fightthe tigers. To-day, the editor directs the newspaper and he oftenaffects to believe that his mission on earth is to fight thetiger himself. The editor of this class is a barbarian who forgets thatRome is only a memory. The successful editor of to-day recognizes the fact that thenewspaper exists to amuse and instruct, to uphold publichonor and private virtue quite as much as to denounce fraudor expose official corruption. The newspaper is powerfulexactly in proportion as it is successful in representing thepeople who read it; in following, rather than dictating, theirline of policy ; and, whether it exists for the people or not,it certainly endures only by their sufferance and good-will.Therefore, it is well that we consider the relations of the peo-ple at large to the newspaper; then, the editors relation to

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