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Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Jazzybee Verlag
Auteur(s)
Samuel McChord Crothers
By The Christmas Fire
Samuel McChord Crothers
In winkelmandje
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Four
essays
packed
full
of
common
sense
which
here
as
elsewhere
is
really
very
uncommon
sense.
Mr.
Crothers
thrusts
his
gentle
spear
down
to
the
deepest
reaches
of
many
sham
philosophies
without
appearing
to
be
a
philosopher
at
all.
His
fashion
of
making
figures
or
metaphors
do
his
work,
and
the
witty
way
in
which
he
turns
them
over
or
dresses
them
up
result
in
a
style
that
is
charming.
For
wholesome
and
elevating
views
carried
home
in
a
most
alluring
rhetoric
these
essays
are
incomparable.
"The
Bayonet
Poker"
hinges
on
an
old
bayonet
converted
into
a
fire-poker
as
a
lesson
that
evil
of
the
universe
and
its
regeneration
are
not
all
in
things
as
apparently
intended,
but
in
men
and
their
ways
of
using
things.
"On
Being
a
Doctrinaire"
is
a
fine
distinction
between
the
doctrinaire
and
the
idealist;
and
a
plea
for
"things
as
they
are"
plus
a
motive
to
do
the
best
we
can
with
them
instead
of
posing
and
scolding
at
imperfections.
"The
Ignominy
of
Being
Grown-up"
is
a
slap
at
the
false
education
that
most
of
us
get
as
a
consequence
of
losing
the
child's
idealism.
In
"The
Spirit
of
Democracy"
Mr.
Crothers
punctures
some
older
ideas
and
commends
the
new
spirit
of
charity
that
has
become
personal
and sympathetic.
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