The golden book of Springfield,

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Date: 1920

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Date: 1920

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Date: 1920

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Date: 1920

Image 7 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 8 of The golden book of Springfield, LIST OF THE BOOKS OF VACHEL LINDSAY Prose A Handy Guide for Beggars. Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. The Art of the Moving Picture. The Golden Book of Springfield. Verse...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 9 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD BY VACHEL LINDSAY A CITIZEN OF fHAT TOWN Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 10 of The golden book of Springfield, Copyright, 1920 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1920. OCT 20 1320 g)C!,A597902

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Date: 1920

Image 11 of The golden book of Springfield, 177 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chaptee Page I. The Campbellite, the Florist and the Hostess 3 II. The Prognosticator s Club 10 III. How People of 1920 Think the Book Will Come, in...

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Date: 1920

Image 12 of The golden book of Springfield, THE PROGNOSTICATOR S CLUB 1920 2018 David Carson, Campbellite minister, becomes St. Friend Anne Morrison, a florist, becomes Roxana Grey Eloise Terry, the hostess becomes Patricia Anthony Clara Horton, a school teacher,...

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Date: 1920

Image 13 of The golden book of Springfield, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED TO ISADORA

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Date: 1920

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Date: 1920

Image 15 of The golden book of Springfield, CHAPTER I THE CAMPBBLLITE, THE FLORIST AND THE HOSTESS In this, our town, we call New Spring- field, David Carson, a young minister of the Disciples of Christ is a near neighbor...

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Date: 1920

Image 16 of The golden book of Springfield, 4 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD bellites are on family terms, no matter how they seem to roam in thought or experience, or no matter what their hereditary argumen- tative disposition. For...

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Date: 1920

Image 17 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 5 and deathless controversy, and high distinc- tion into the log cabins of the Ohio river basin, especially the romantic regions of Mason and Dixon s line....

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Date: 1920

Image 18 of The golden book of Springfield, 6 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD And now, in Springfield, under the same rich lithograph my neighbor keeps the bound volumes of Campbell s Christian Baptist and Millenial Harbinger, once the arsenal...

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Date: 1920

Image 19 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 7 among similar pioneers. He is especially honored by that splendid sect, the Sweden- borgians, for he was a preacher and teacher of the doctrines of Swedenborg....

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Date: 1920

Image 20 of The golden book of Springfield, 8 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD left behind him apples, orchards heavy with fruit, beauty from the very black earth, and a tradition whose wonder shall yet ring through all the palaces...

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Date: 1920

Image 21 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRrN GFIELD 9 for their human interest in her unconsciously inhuman inquisitions. And inquisitions, after all, come but once a month or so. In general she and her...

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Date: 1920

Image 22 of The golden book of Springfield, CHAPTER n THE PROGNOSTICATOR S CLUB The young disciple minister and I decide that the people of Springfield who see the vision of the city of the future should be brought together,...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 23 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 11 thing except established well-dressed bank accounts to rule the city. Children are sent to universities to polish their manners, but not to bring back any changed...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 24 of The golden book of Springfield, 12 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD more firmly in the Eepublican Party, and when he is in the South he maintains that Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson lived and toiled and suffered...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 25 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 13 taigne, Lord Chesterfield, Thackeray, Shake- speare, and the like. He enjoys discussing in the most sympathetic way every human trait that has to do with purely...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 26 of The golden book of Springfield, 14 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD she is the daughter of a nymph of the most delicate mood and a faun of the gentlest sort. Her whole physical fabric is aglow with...

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Date: 1920

Image 27 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 15 ter. But we do not talk about these matters generally. We talk about New Springfield. The Prognosticators discover that still others have been dreaming joyfully all...

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Date: 1920

Image 28 of The golden book of Springfield, 16 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD good color into a finality of the soul. He has been marvelously generous in his sympathy and his patience with budding talent, and therefore the artists...

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Date: 1920

Image 29 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 17 Christian Science Reader. She is beautiful, in this day, and though she does not speak of her mirror in 2018, as does the headlong Jew- ish...

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Date: 1920

Image 30 of The golden book of Springfield, 18 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD that I have often called her The Daughter of Lysippus. In every line is the elegance that old sculptor might have loved. In pomp, upon her...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 31 of The golden book of Springfield, CHAPTER in HOW PEOPLE OF 1920 THINK THE GOLDEN BOOK WILL COME IN 2018 When we, the Prognosticator s Club, come together for our meetings it is inevitable that our talk should...

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Date: 1920

Image 32 of The golden book of Springfield, 20 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD tions of the cross, in this, Springfield s new church of St. Peter and St. Paul, on the old site of Sixth and Reynold s Streets....

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Date: 1920

Image 33 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 21 after day the whole population flocks to the cathedral to hear, in the blazing kaleidoscopic costumes of that time, all kinds of people, saints and sinners....

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Date: 1920

Image 34 of The golden book of Springfield, 22 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD sliders among the devotees of this 2018 reli- gion of flowers. She has a double conscious- ness that keeps a jnind in both periods, but is...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 35 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 23 They are in a complete circle of twelve, sur- rounding the very edges of the city. The first two, which are the tallest, are by the...

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Date: 1920

Image 36 of The golden book of Springfield, 24 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD Domini, 2018. Roxana is there to watch for the dawn. She walks alone, according to the discipline, saying certain prayers. The park is on the edge...

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Date: 1920

Image 37 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 25 fiod aspects. Along the margins are old texts from the special books of her shrine, and from Swedenborg and the Old and New Testa- ments. When...

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Date: 1920

Image 38 of The golden book of Springfield, 26 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD Anthony, forewoman, and can order people about. Her factory is at Ninth and Converse Streets, on the same ground with The Illinois Watch Company and The...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

Image 39 of The golden book of Springfield, THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD 27 largely economic. There are citations from Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Henry George, and on, forward, to Joseph Bartholdi Michael the second, and Black Hawk Boone, Springfield...

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Date: 1920

Image 40 of The golden book of Springfield, 28 THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRINGFIELD partment of the school where she teaches. In the reincarnation she bears the name of Josephine Windom, She stands helpless when a Rock and Kopensky mob,...

Contributor: Lindsay, Vachel
Date: 1920

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