The God in the Glass
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. The artist! he garners the world in a dream, and lo! the dream is more real […]
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Essays
Essays
The Unrepentant—An Affirmation
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. To have the courage of one’s transgressions—that is heroic. To repent of one’s transgressions—that is merely
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Correspondence
Skepticism Extolled by a Skeptic
To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: Through all of Mr. Goldwin Smith’s letters to The Sun on religion there runs a
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Essays
The Great White Negation
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. To wish for the fulfillment of your desire—that is childish. To fear the fulfillment of your
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Essays
Gorky: Hamlet Awakened
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Events in Russia have brought Maxim Gorky to the front with a bound. For him literature
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Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;And when I am
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Features
Silence: Beyond the Saturnalias
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES They who are won to silence have passed the gaudy gates of Vanity Fair—the gates that
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Essays
Cosmic Marionettes
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES All the great novelists are fatalists. Admission or denial on their part is beside the question.
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Essays
The Dramatic Devil’s Advocate and Cynicism
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES NO drama is now complete without its cynic or cynics. Some plays have a boss cynic
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