Indeed, the book can be seen as an attempt to draw the outline for mysticism as a discipline, with its own history, goals, and methods. It is presented as being related to yet distinct from...
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Kathleen E. Innes
This book provides a historical account showing how the League ideal developed from the Amphictyonic League in ancient Greece, through the conceptions of William Penn
, the Abbé St Pierre
, Immanuel Kant
, and Tsar Nicholas II
.
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Elizabeth Rigby
Scholars Mitchell
and Broomfield
observe that like Kant
before her and Oscar Wilde
after, Eastlake sought to define a realm of human experience to and for which only art could speak, whereas Ruskin believed that...