category: hero worship

On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions

... Fourth edi- tion , revised and enlarged . 1 vol . 12mo . Lectures to Young People . By W. B. SPRAGUE , D.D. With an Introductory Address by SAM- UEL MILLER , D.D. Fourth edition . 1 vol . 12mo . 10 New Works and New Editions MY SON'S ...

Athletes and the American Hero Dilemma

... heroes ; " Flawed complexity is useful for resolving the debate only when ... heroes provides little solid evidence to help settle the debate . If particular heroes ... mists . Short - lived appeal is also considered to indicate flawed ...

Heroes and Hero-worship

... fatal chaos ! — Much sorry stuff , written some hundred years ago or more , about the ' Divine right of Kings , ' moulders unread now in the Public Libraries of this country . Far be it from us to disturb the calm process by which it is ...

On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions

... Infinite pity , yet also infinite rigour of law : it is so Nature is made ; it is so Dante discerned that she was made . What a paltry notion is that of his Divine Comedy's being a poor splenetic im- potent terrestrial libel ; putting ...

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