...Ellen Glasgow, that these were the only themes capable of inspiring great art. "Ideals," she wrote, "were not archaic things, beautiful and impotent; they were the real sources of power among men," and unlike so many of her contemporaries — Hemingway, for example — she was not embarrassed by...

...the world was safe; the careful planners would never be able to put it into a strait-jacket. . . . Ideals were not archaic things, beautiful and impotent; they were the real sources of power among men" (339). In European culture power did flow from the force of ideas, from the ideas of Ghristianity,...

...by death was also a central theme in Willa Gather's One of Ours, whose American hero dies believing "Ideals were not archaic things, beautiful and impotent; they were the real sources of power among men." Gather's sentiments were crowned with the Pulitzer Prize in 1922.25 The battlefields of France were...