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Emerson says: "It is good to know that it has been recorded of Alcott, the benign idealist, that when the Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, heading the rush on the U.S. Court House in Boston, to rescue a fugitive slave, looked back for his following at the court-room door, only the apostolic philosopher was there cane in hand."
Altogether a melancholy, pitiable man at once thorough-going sceptic and thorough-going idealist, the victim of that critical sense which says 'No' to every impulse, and is always restlessly and yet hopelessly, seeking the future through the neglected and outraged present. And yet the man's instincts, at this period of his life at any rate, were habitually kindly and affectionate.
He left me five or six years ago without rhyme or reason, and went over to the Ohio Glass Works, where he has made quite a name for himself. I had a tussle to get him back, but he comes to take charge next month. He is one of those rare men you read about, but seldom find, a practical idealist."
"Whatever happens, it won't interfere with our personal friendship, even if you think me a highwayman and I think you a " "A fanatic," Holder supplied. He had risen, too, and stood, with a smile on his face, gazing at the lawyer with an odd scrutiny. "An idealist, I was going to say," Langmaid answered, returning the smile, "I'll admit that we need them in the world.
I see great dangers ahead for him, but I see no honourable way of avoiding them. When a man, careless of danger, unconcerned with profit, takes up the cause of God against the world, others may not follow, but they must admire him. Abstract sentiments of virtue do not charm me. Orange is a Roman Catholic, however, and therefore a practical idealist.
And so the months rolled past them both, Catie the young materialist and potential tyrant, and Scott Brenton the idealist. The years carried the children out of the perpetual holidays of infancy and into the treadmill of schooling that begins with b, a, ba and sometimes never ends.
Marie's relative good sense, her vitality and love of life, finally rebelled against an idealism so exquisite that it became cruelty and almost madness. And this is the way with the world. The world cannot, in the end, endure the idealist, though it has great need of him.
Here spoke the Prelate, the Idealist, the Mystic. But the Knight was a man and a lover. His dark face flushed, and his eyes grew bright with inward fires such as the Bishop could hardly be expected to understand. "I want not spiritual planes," he said, "nor realms of perfection.
Royce and Taylor accept similar solutions, only they emphasize the irrationality of our finite universe less than Bradley does; and Royce in particular, being unusually 'thick' for an idealist, tries to bring the absolute's secret forms of relief more sympathetically home to our imagination. Well, what must we do in this tragic predicament?
"Well, then, he made me see there were real men in the world," Vina declared with slow defiance. "Oh." "You're sure to misunderstand. Please listen carefully. He is as far to me from being that kind of a real man as a mere native. Do you understand?... I could worship through him, as through a pure priest " "Vina, you're a passionate idealist!" "You don't know him.
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