Politics Are A Very Unsatisfactory

[after Viewing The Palace Of Electricity At The 1900 Trocadero Exposition In Paris] [saint-gaudens And Matthew Arnold] Felt A Railway Train As Power; Yet They, And All Other Artists, Constantly Complained That The Power Embodied In A Railway Train Could Never Be Embodied In Art. All The Steam In The World Could Not, Like The Virgin, Build Chartres.

It Is Impossible To Underrate Human Intelligence - Beginning With One's Own.

Practical Politics Consists In Ignoring Facts.

I Am An Anarchist In Politics And An Impressionist In Art As Well As A Symbolist In Literature. Not That I Understand What These Terms Mean, But I Take Them To Be All Merely Synonyms Of Pessimist.

If It Were Worth While To Argue A Paradox, One Might Maintain That Nature Regards The Female As The Essential, The Male As The Superfluity Of Her World. Perhaps The Best Starting-point For Study Of The Virgin Would Be A Practical Acquaintance With Bees, And Especially With Queen Bees.