 In any previous age, sex was strength. Neither art nor beauty was needed. Every one, even among Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the Oriental goddesses was worshipped for her beauty. She was goddess because of her force; she...  International Journal of Ethics - 51. lappuse1920Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Henry Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society - 1918 - 542 lapas
...previous age, sex was strength. Neither art nor beauty was needed. Every one, even among Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the...of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund. Singularly enough, not one of Adams's many schools of education had ever drawn his attention to the... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1918 - 538 lapas
...previous age, sex was strength. Neither art nor beauty was needed. Every one, even among Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the...and most mysterious of all energies; all she needed s to be fecund. } Singularly enough, not one of Adams's many schools of education had ever drawn his... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1918 - 538 lapas
...anyjjreyjous age, segjras__strength. Neither art nor beauty was needed. Every one, even among Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the...worshipped for her beauty. She was goddess because L of her force; she was the animated dynamo; she wAs reproduction •the greatesTand Host mystenoQS... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1922 - 270 lapas
...American female has not a feature that would have been recognised by Adam," 1 68 and he goes on to remark "that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the...of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund." Thus later the Virgin was worshipped as the embodiment of mysterious energy. But for us of to-day her... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1922 - 272 lapas
...American female has not a feature that would have been recognised by Adam," and he goes on to remark "that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the...of her force; she was the animated dynamo; she was reproduction—the greatest and most mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund."... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1927 - 534 lapas
...previous age, sex was strength. Neither art nor beauty was needed. Every one, even among Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the...animated dynamo; she was reproduction — the greatest andujost mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund. Singularly enough, not one of... | |
 | John Cournos - 1928 - 494 lapas
...Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesian^ nor any of the Oriental goddesses was worshiped for her beauty. She was goddess because of her force;...of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund. . . ." These thoughts were disquieting to Adams, whose mind lived in an age gone by. Man, he saw clearly,... | |
 | Richard Harvey Brown, Stanford M. Lyman - 1978 - 308 lapas
...was a sin." Adams observed that "in any previous age, sex was strength; the goddess was worshipped because of her force . . . she was the animated dynamo;...mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund."16 But in this country she was unknown, the profound individualism of competitive capitalism... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 lapas
...previous age, sex was strength. Neither art nor beauty was needed. Every one, even among Puritans, knew that neither Diana of the Ephesians nor any of the...of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund. Singularly enough, not one of Adams's many schools of education had ever drawn his attention to the... | |
 | Peter Gardella - 1985 - 225 lapas
...lifted her wonderful Chartres spire up to God."98 For the Virgin of Chartres, "sex was strength. . . . She was goddess because of her force; she was the...mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund."99 By giving birth to God, the Virgin demonstrated that the same force worked in creation and... | |
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