amphionic

Updated: May 15, 2025

Is there not hope for democracy if in the places of its greatest strain and stress, in the midst of its fiercest passions, there is a deliberate, affectionate, intelligent striving toward cities that have been revealed not in apocalyptic vision but in the long-studied plans of terrestrial architects and engineers and altruistic souls, such as that of Jane Addams, cities that to such amphionic music shall out of the shards of the past build themselves silently, impregnably if not in a diviner clime, at any rate in a diviner spirit on shores and slopes and plains of that broad valley of the new democracy, conterminous in its mountain boundaries with New France in America?

John Finley - The French in the Heart of America

So we may say, I think, of Shelley's magic universe what he said of Greece; if it "Must be A wreck, yet shall its fragments re-assemble, And build themselves again impregnably In a diviner clime, To Amphionic music, on some cape sublime Which frowns above the idle foam of time."

George Santayana - Winds Of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion