Quotes by Ralph Adams Cram - Page 1

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
Ralph Adams Cram / Architect
War
Disillusionment
Great War
Progressive
Revelations
Revelation
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These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.
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Men
Free Man
Rational
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
Ralph Adams Cram / Architect
Century
Financial
Revolution
Began
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Towards
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Bondage
Liberty
Soul
Umpires
Attribute
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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Century
Drama
Lasts
Opening
Twentieth Century
Decade
Evolutionary
Seemed
Twentieth
Unquestioned
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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Art
Aristocracy
August
Definite
Effort
Great Art
Noble
Philosophy
Pursuit
Art Great Always
Civil
Implies
Polity
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ralph Adams Cram / Architect
Christian
Christianity
Cumulative
Democracy
Inheritance
Repetition
Thousand
Thousand Years
Vain
Wealth
Years
Preserved
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
Ralph Adams Cram / Architect
Civilization
Class
Creative
Destruction
Representatives
Wholesale
Began
Directing
Mechanical
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Ralph Adams Cram / Architect
Aristocracy
Century
Character
Evil
Members
Race
Republicanism
Revolt
Directed
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Large Measure
Measure
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
Ralph Adams Cram / Architect
Men
Care
Philosophy
Take Care
Measure
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
Ralph Adams Cram / Architect
Christianity
Important
Mechanism
Philosophy
Rationalism
Reformation
Centuries
Declined
Followed
Important Part
Increased
Philosophies
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
Ralph Adams Cram / Architect
Influence
Modern Life
Numbers
Sheer
Weight
Controlling
Won
Failed
Gained
Pervasive
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