Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Technological progress Technology Progress Modern life The human condition

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Author

Willa Cather

Source

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 9, ch. 6.

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

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The Professor's House

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Topic
Limits of knowledge Inscrutability Connecting with others Intimacy

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Willa Cather
Source
The Professor's House
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. Alfred A. Knopf, 1925, bk. 1, ch. 8.

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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

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Abuses of religion

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Suzanne LaFollette
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The Beginnings of Emancipation Concerning Women
Language
English
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
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Citation

LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea.

John Stuart Mill

The Utility of Religion

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The mysterious Mysteriousness of the universe The human condition

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John Stuart Mill
Source
The Utility of Religion
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1873 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Utility of Religion." Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Contest in America." Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Vol. 10, Routledge, 2014.