Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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almost if notquite as liberal in his views as the latter statesman.The life of Franklin will ever hold profound interestfor true friends of democracy and patriots who lovethe Republic. He was one of the great trio who inour judgment were the most influential minds in thebattle for fundamental democracy and the rights ofthe people in the great Revolution that inauguratedthe democratic era. An Awakening. In An Awakening, by Mrs. Julia Scott Vroo-man, which appears in this issue, our readerswill find one of the most interesting, thought-stimulating and conscience-stirring magazine articlesof recent months. Mrs. Vrooman writes in asmooth and pleasing style which will appeal to the finer sensibilities of thoughtful men and wo nen;and in giving the interesting facts in relation to the extensive work being carried on in Switzerlandto give vacations to poor children and mothers, shemakes a strong and compelling appeal for theunfortunates of our own land. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google
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By special permission of Di-uMcday, P?gc & Company. TOLSTOI—PROPHET OF THE LAST GENERATION TAKEN FOR MR. WALLING IN 1906, AT THE TIME OF HIS INTERVIEW Digitized by Google We do not take possession of our ideas, bid are possessed by them;They master us and force us into the arena,Where, like gladiators, we must fight for them.9*—Heine. The Arena Vol. 40 December, 1908 No. 228 A REVISED VERSION OF VENICE. By Julia Scott Vrooman. ON THE train going to Venice, ourcompartment was occupied by avariety of persons thrown into a juxta-position, which typified curiously enoughthe contrast that existed between theirparticular points of view. A couple of college girls, bubbling overwith enthusiasm and scarcely able towait for their first ecstatic glimpse ofVenice, were seated opposite two Englishwomen, who were exhausted and blasefrom the strain of six months incessanttravel and indiscriminate sight-seeing,while a pleasant matter-of-fact-lookingAmerican business man, who had gotseparated

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