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... Of course the raison d'etre of being here is the sulphur spring. There is no doubt of its efficacy. I suppose it is as unpleasant as any in the country. Everybody smells it, and a great many drink it. The artist said that after using it a week the blind walk, the lame see, and the dumb swear. It renews ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... Industry powerless to cure the deeper Industrial Maladies. Sec. 4. Beginnings of Public Control of Machine-production. Sec. 5. Passage of Industries into a public Non-competitive Condition. Sec. 6. The "raison d'etre" of Progressive Collectivism. Sec. 7. Collectivism follows the line of Monopoly. Sec. 8. Cases of "Arrested Development:" the Sweating Trades. Sec. 9. Retardation of rate of Progress in Collective Industries. ...

— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

... mediocrity preserves a dead level. It is therefore no spirit of fault finding which leads us to centre our attention upon those Sonatas which have best stood the test of time and which never fail to convince us of their "raison d'etre": the Appassionata, the Waldstein, the C-sharp minor, the Pathetique, the Sonata in G major, op. 14, No. 2, and all the last five, especially the glorious one in A-flat major, op. ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding

... da Correggio, born 1494, died 1534. "He was the first master—the Venetians notwithstanding— to take a scheme of color and chiaro-scuro as the 'raison d'etre' of a complete composition, and his brush, responding to the idea, blends light and shade in delicious harmony."—Woltmann and Woermann's 'History ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... but the logic of the heart is often truer than the logic of the head, and the sword has no raison d'etre, except in ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

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