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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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Ellis, Havelock. Little Essays of Love and Virtue. George H. Doran Company/A & C Black, 1922, ch. 7.

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

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The Dance of Life

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Ellis, Havelock. The Dance of Life. Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1923, ch. 2.

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It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

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Ellis, Havelock. The Dance of Life. Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1923, ch. 3.

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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

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Impressions and Comments

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Ellis, Havelock. Impressions and Comments. Constable & Company, 1914.

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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

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Ellis, Havelock. Little Essays of Love and Virtue. George H. Doran Company/A & C Black, 1922, ch. 7.

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