Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising

... the present flawedness of human nature and the marredness of the physical world were interpreted as following upon a period of paradisal perfection that was brought to an end by a disastrous ancestral act.

Rickert was the first woman (and second individual) to be awarded a Ph.D. in English letters and philology with that academic honor at the University of Chicago.

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