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Actually, what I hope to dispel isn't pre-Darwinian mystery, but a kind of post-Darwinian mysticism, a confused exaltation of genetic affinity.
a heinous redistribution of wealth, [and] the exaltation of capital" (John Anderson, Newsday ). (Click here for the full Monty .)
The Morris emphasis on the handmade, the rough-hewed, and the handed-down--what Thorstein Veblen, a year after Burne-Jones' death, wickedly called the "exaltation of the defective"--did not reverse the Industrial Revolution.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, stereoscope enthusiast, wrote of the experience that “the shutting out of surrounding objects, and the concentration of the whole attention, which is a consequence of this, produce a dreamlike exaltation…in which we seem to leave the body behind us and sail away into one strange scene after another, like disembodied spirits” (Holmes 1861).
Still, there are some reasons to prefer the 19 th century's embrace of partisanship to today's exaltation of the conscience-serving, hyper-responsible individual--or what I once heard called the "David Broder/League of Women Voters school of politics."