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Updated: June 14, 2025
Vachel Lindsay, I suppose, wants millions not merely to love, but to detect the finer shades of the poetic art. If he set out to accomplish this dream by lowering the standards of poetry, then he would debase the public and be a traitor to his guild. But his method is uncompromising he taught the harvester not Mrs. Hemans, but Swinburne. He calls his own verse the higher vaudeville.
"Belike you'll come to learn in time!" says I, beside myself. At this I saw the white hand clench itself, but her voice was tender as ever when she answered: "Sorrow and suffering may lift a man to greatness if he be strong of soul or debase him to the brute if he be weak." "Why then," says I, "begone to your gallants and leave me to the brutes."
She must watch, and strive, and pray if she would be pure. If she does not, she will become corrupt before she is aware of it. The world will send into her heart its putrid streams of influence to corrupt and debase it. The second virtue she should cultivate is benevolence.
Why then are we afraid when we send a young man from the Schools into active life, lest he should indulge his appetites intemperately, lest he should debase himself by ragged clothing, or be puffed up by fine raiment? Knows he not the God within him; knows he not with whom he is starting on his way? Have we patience to hear him say to us, Would I had thee with me!
Why not recall the hunger of eighteen years of age and give these youths the very bread of our own inner selves? Or do we, when they ask this bread, give them the stone of mere provision for their physical needs or the scorpion of careless indulgence in things that debase the tastes?
They commonly debase the word "profiteer" to mean some one who gets an exceptional profit, just as they use my own "Eye-Witness" phrase, "The Servile State," to mean strict regulation of all civic life an idea twenty miles away from the proper signification of the term.
The patterns of life are only given upon that holy mount where, midst clouds and darkness, dwell God and the higher imagination. But if the imagination has its use, it has its abuse also. If visions of truth and beauty can exalt, visions of vice can debase and degrade. In that picture where Faust and Satan battle together for the scholar's soul, the angels share in the conflict.
He would have given his eyes ay, and ten thousand pounds more if I would have accepted the girl, but I would not." "Why, in the name of goodness?" "Sir, her uncle was a SHOEMAKER. I never would debase myself by marrying into such a family." "Of course not," said Dobble; "he couldn't, you know. Well, now tell him about the other girl, Mary Waters, you know."
The whole of humanity seemed to her unclean as she thought of the obscene secrets of the senses, of the caresses which debase as they are given and received, and of all the mysteries which surround the attraction of the sexes.
He shrank from it as a profanation as a crime as a frenzy. He with his fate so uncertain and chequered he to link himself with one so helpless he to debase the very poetry that clung to the mental temperament of this pure being, with the feelings which every fair face may awaken to every coarse heart to love Fanny! No, it was impossible!
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