Humanities (Apr 2017)

Action, Passion, Crises

  • Denis Goldberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/h6020024
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 2
p. 24

Abstract

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The title of this speech is taken from a remark of the renowned Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr: “When we were young our hearts were touched with fire...[and as]...life is action and passion, it is required of [one] that [one] should share the passion and action of [one’s] time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived [...]

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