Some seer he seemed, that came not from the crimson Past or the gray To-come, but from the pulsing Now,—that mocking world which seemed to me at once so light and dark, so splendid and sordid.
This sentence from The Souls of Black Folk further elaborates on Du Bois's perception of Alexander Crummell as a wise figure deeply connected to the complexities of the present moment.
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