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“A discussion of the supreme need of the age: how Christianity can satisfy it.” (Subtitle) In the author’s opinion the supreme need of the age “is the need of something to do, the need of some gigantic undertaking—in a word, the need of a task, or in still simpler Anglo-Saxon, the need of a job.” Contents: The need stated: the need of a task; The need analyzed: the need and the age; The need emphasized: the need and the war; The need satisfied: the need and the Christian task of establishing the kingdom of God on earth; The need summarized: Christianity and other related needs.
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DUBOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT. Darkwater: voices from within the veil. *$2 (3c) Harcourt 326
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“I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual and even illuminating ways.” (Postscript) And it is an unusual collection of essays, stories and parables alternating with “little alightings of what may be poetry.” Beginning with a “credo” and an autobiographical sketch, The shadow of years, the contents are: The souls of white folk; The hands of Ethiopia; Of work and wealth; “The servant in the house”; Of the ruling of men; The damnation of women; The immortal child; Of beauty and death; The comet. The interposed poetry is: A litany at Atlanta; The riddle of the sphinx; The princess of the Hither isles; The second coming; Jesus Christ in Texas; The call; Children of the moon; Almighty death; The prayers of God; A hymn to the peoples. Mr DuBois is author of “The souls of black folk,” “The negro,” etc., and is editor of the Crisis.
“We can admit the whole of Dr DuBois’ plea for the negro, although we cannot admit his argument, and we can do so because his argument is irrelevant. His picture of the majority of mankind, the ‘coloured’ races, being kept in subjugation by the, on the whole, inferior white races is, we feel, rather more poetic than scientific.”
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