"Gentlemen," said another member of the committee, the youthful abstractionist from South Carolina, who was reputed to be a great poet on the stump, the Hon.
"Tales of the Chesapeake"
George Alfred Townsend
The youthful abstractionist, Lowndes Cleburn, expressed it even better.
"Tales of the Chesapeake"
George Alfred Townsend
Your typical ultra- abstractionist fairly shudders at concreteness: other things equal, he positively prefers the pale and spectral.
"Pragmatism A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking"
William James