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van Doren, Mark | December 10, 1924 issue

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Havelock Ellis is only sixty-five years old, but throughout the third and final series of his "Comments and Impressions" he speaks like one who believes that he is done. The quality of his present vision he has himself defined in a magnificent passage describing the final phase of any great artist's genius. If he is the ripest commentator on human life today it is because he knows and remembers more pertinent things than any other man, and because these things are grown not only into his mind but also, apparently, into his body; so that to observe for him is to reflect, and to reflect is to feel truth spreading like a warm dye through nerve and sinew and bone.

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AUTHORS; BOOKS; ARTISTS; ORIGINALITY; QUALITY of life; ELLIS, Havelock, 1859-1939
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