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… solemn procedure were the near relatives of those about to die; presumably, as a rule their children or grand-children. … group, those who can no longer keep the pace are made as comfortable as possible with a little fire, a few scraps of … some deep-seated general characteristics of human individuals or human societies, or perhaps that they trace back of …

… affirmation today: monographs are usually written for an audience of half a dozen specialists in the same field and to … and why the Athenians and Spartans came to blows. They have come away from the work, as they have from that of his … an Athens which cleaved less to reality than to certain ideals. According to the French historian of antiquity, Nicole …

… conquer merely by existing. The sense of things that do not die is a comfort and a spur. It comes more by what we feel than by … suggested vaguely a set of problems, a series of differentials, discriminations, inequalities and introspections that …

… indeed, for they are conceived in kindness, justice and compassion by the imagination that creates them. In Miss … left, right, front, back, center and sideways.” As Gloria points out, “She was Saint George. . . . And Ignorance was … and ways, had also fought a losing battle and had also died in misery. She had seemed to fail even with Virgie, who …

… in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” I want first to remind us of the complex narrative structure of Whitman’s poem for his … “If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die” takes its diction from Quaker idiom. Whitman’s mother … his own journey to death. This is one of my central points: not just Lincoln but also Whitman must die in this …