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Chapter 4 ON MAKING PEOPLE PROUD OF THE WORLD

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in the way the world is made and is being made every morning. The true lover of nature is touched with a kind of cosm

here were an extra Creator we could go to-some of us-and boast about the one we ha

are taking in the world. The typical modern man, whatever may be said or not said of his religion, of his

ognize what he is for, and be a god, too. We believe to-day that the best recognition of God consists in recogn

it-but when I waked a few mornings ago and felt myself swinging in my own house as if it were a hammock, and was told that some men down in Hazardville, Connecticut, had managed to shake the planet like that, with some gunpowder they had made, I felt

elve-year-old boy, at least, the thought of the hour he spent with that engine first is a thought he sings and prays with to this day. His lips trembled before it. He sought to hide himself in its presence. Why had no one ever taught him anything before? As he looks back through his life there is one experience that stands ou

ms, the appeal to destiny, to the imagination and to the soul. It rebuilds the universe. It is the opportunity of beauty throughout life, the symbol of freedom, the freedom of men, and of the unity of nations, and of the worship of God. In silence-like the soft far running of

that was builded in it-was the vision of the age to be: the vision of Man, My Brother, after the singsong and dance and drone of his sad four thousand years, lifting himself to the stature of his soul at last, liftin

because He has made the vast and still machine of creation, in the beating of whose days and nights we live our lives, but because He has made a Machine that can make machines-because out of the dust of the earth He has made a Machine that shall take more of the dust of

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Contents

Chapter 1 AS GOOD AS OURS Chapter 2 ON BEING BUSY AND STILL Chapter 3 ON NOT SHOWING OFF Chapter 4 ON MAKING PEOPLE PROUD OF THE WORLD Chapter 5 PLATO AND THE GENERAL ELECTRIC WORKS Chapter 6 HEWING AWAY ON THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH Chapter 7 THE GRUDGE AGAINST THE INFINITE Chapter 8 SYMBOLISM IN MODERN ART Chapter 9 THE MACHINES AS ARTISTS Chapter 10 THE IDEA OF INCARNATION Chapter 11 THE IDEA OF SIZE
Chapter 12 THE IDEA OF LIBERTY
Chapter 13 THE IDEA OF IMMORTALITY
Chapter 14 No.14
Chapter 15 THE IDEA OF GOD
Chapter 16 THE IDEA OF THE UNSEEN AND INTANGIBLE
Chapter 17 THE IDEA OF GREAT MEN
Chapter 18 THE NEXT MORNING.
Chapter 19 NEIGHBORS TO ABBOTSMEAD.
Chapter 20 PAST AND PRESENT.
Chapter 21 A DISCOVERY.
Chapter 22 PRELIMINARIES.
Chapter 23 BESSIE SHOWS CHARACTER.
Chapter 24 A QUIET POLICY.
Chapter 25 A DINNER AT BRENTWOOD.
Chapter 26 A MORNING AT BRENTWOOD.
Chapter 27 SOME DOUBTS AND FEARS.
Chapter 28 IN MINSTER COURT.
Chapter 29 LADY LATIMER IN WOLDSHIRE.
Chapter 30 MY LADY REVISITS OLD SCENES.
Chapter 31 A SUCCESS AND A REPULSE.
Chapter 32 A HARD STRUGGLE.
Chapter 33 A VISIT TO CASTLEMOUNT.
Chapter 34 BESSIE'S PEACEMAKING.
Chapter 35 ABBOTSMEAD IN SHADOW.
Chapter 36 DIPLOMATIC.
Chapter 37 SUNDAY MORNING AT BEECHHURST.
Chapter 38 SUNDAY EVENING AT BROOK.
Chapter 39 AT FAIRFIELD.
Chapter 40 ANOTHER RIDE WITH THE DOCTOR.
Chapter 41 FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES.
Chapter 42 HOW FRIENDS MAY FALL OUT..
Chapter 43 BETWEEN THEMSELVES.
Chapter 44 A LONG, DULL DAY.
Chapter 45 THE SQUIRE'S WILL.
Chapter 46 TENDER AND TRUE.
Chapter 47 GOODNESS PREVAILS.
Chapter 48 CERTAIN OPINIONS.
Chapter 49 BESSIE'S LAST RIDE WITH THE DOCTOR.
Chapter 50 FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE.
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