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The Present Conflict of Ideals; A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War

Ralph Barton Perry
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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE ALIEN WORLD In characterizing one's own age, it is important not to confuse its mere contemporaneousness with its genuine historical peculiarities. There are certain characteristics which any age whatsoever will present to the eyes of those who live in it. It will always be the modern age, the latest phase of human development. And it will always be an age of transition. There will be on the one hand those ideas and institutions that are over-ripe, or decaying, or dried up, and on the other hand those which are in the bud, full of sap and the promise of luxuriance to come. The old men will judge the age in terms of the past, as a decline from the good old days; and the young men will judge it in terms of the future as the dawn of a better to-morrow. To both young and old it will appear to be an age of transition, for the simple reason that every age is an age of transition, and for the further and equally simple reason that change always receives more notice and comment than sameness. Nevertheless, in spite of my own warning, I do think that there are reasons for regarding such comment as peculiarly applicable to the era just prior to the war. Strindberg, for example, suggests that it is this transitional quality of the present age which makes it peculiarly modern. Because they are modern characters, living in a period of transition more hysterically hurried than its immediate predecessor at least, I have made my figures vacillating, out of joint, torn between the old and the new. . . . My souls (or characters) are conglomerates, made up of past and present stages of civilization, scraps of humanity, torn-off pieces of Sunday clothing turned into rags all patched together as is the human soul itself. And I have furthermore offered a touch of evo...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Present Conflict of Ideals; A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War. To get started finding The Present Conflict of Ideals; A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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The Present Conflict of Ideals; A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War

Ralph Barton Perry
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