FEINBERG/WHIITMAN   NOTES and NOTEBOOKS   NOTES--Literary   UNDATED   Refining Influences

Box 40  Folder 23493

Refining Influences:  prose. A.MS.  (1p. 12 1/2 x 10 cm.)

Written in pencil on a piece torn from the corner of a larger
sheet, 38 words:

[The idea conviction That certain The-great] The refining
& ameliorating influences of these later ages of the world,
especially Christianity, the prevalence of refinement in literature
& a certain morbidity of benevolence, & even of the 
greatConviction
[The idea that 
law is The,
[The-great] The refining
& ameliorating influences 
of these later 
ages of the world
especially Christianity 
the prevalence of 
refinement in literature
& a certain morbidity 
of benevolence, & 
even of the great