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— Emily Blackwell"Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . ."
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The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.
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