"To realize life in the abstract as noble……" — George Edward Woodberry
"To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind."
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George Edward Woodberry
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