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Excerpt from Democracy: A Man-SearchWhile this vision of nature was the basis for Sullivan's esthetic of form and function, it was also, and more importantly in his man-centered philosophy, the basis for individual re-creation. By his own slow absorption in nature the student himself became organic. He re-established within himself a natural harmony of thought and feeling, reason and emotion, a harmony denied, Sullivan felt, by current academic training, with its emphasis on the drily intellectual application of dead styles, and denied by other aspects of civilization as well. Sullivan's was a strenuous protest against what he saw as the overemphasis on intellect and the denial of the creative role of the emotions - a protest continued by his pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright. His counter-vision, of the organic or whole man, who has overcome false dualisms of head and heart, intellect and emotion, is the focal point of his thought. For until individual man discovers not only the organic quality of nature but the applicability of nature's lessons to himself, neither the architecture nor the society he creates can be genuine.When, in Democracy, Sullivan turned his attention to Merican society as a whole, the new context led him to develop further certain ideas that Kindergarten Chats had merely touched upon. By studying man in relation to history and society, rather than in relation to nature, Sullivan began to move beyond romantic or Transcendental formulations, to emerge with conceptions that suggestively parallel some of the fundamental ideas of later thinkers like William James and John Dewey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.