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Lafcadio Hearn

" One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index "

Want , Books , English

" There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny "

Poetry , Old , Woman , Destiny , Misfortune , Sorrow

" Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics "

Ethics , Tolerance

" It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality "

Respect , Mankind , Morality

" A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind "

Knowledge , Value , Mankind , Today , Examination

" A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable "

Art , Proof

" Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away "

Enthusiasm , Inspiration , Bible , Europe

" Any idealism is a proper subject for art "

Art

" Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was, "

Bible

" At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language "

Language , English , Famous , Literary