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æsthetic ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN artistic Auguste Comte beauty become better called carbonic acid class-room cultivation culture definite desire discipline edge emotions ence enlargement eral Euglena exercise experience expression fact faculties feel force gain give Greek habit humane letters ical ideal ideas imagination instinct intel intellectual interest JOHN HENRY NEWMAN judgment kind knowl language learning less liberal education literary literature living mankind matter means ment mental methods mind modern Molière moral natural knowledge never object Paradise Lost person philosophy physical science Plato pleasure poetry practical present principles professional Professor Huxley pupils question reader reading result scholar scientific sense society soul spirit student taste teachers teaching things THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY thought tion to-day true truth ture undergraduates understand University whole words
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Page 191 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Page 333 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Page 307 - And for the generality of men there will be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was "a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits...
Page 289 - The first is, that neither the discipline nor the subject-matter of classical education is of such direct value to the student of physical science as to justify the expenditure of valuable time upon either; and the second is, that for the purpose of attaining real culture, an exclusively scientific education is at least as effectual as an exclusively literary education.
Page 107 - Can there be any thing more ridiculous, than that a father should waste his own money, and his son's time, in setting him to learn the Roman language, when, at the same time, he designs him for a trade...
Page 84 - It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning profusion of subjects; of implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not; of considering an acquaint1 Philologists, Salmasius at the University of Leyden (died 1653), Burmann at Utrecht (Hied 1742).
Page 282 - I find myself wholly unable to admit that either nations or individuals will really advance, if their common outfit draws nothing from the stores of physical science. I should say that an army, without weapons of precision and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of a knowledge of what physical science has done in the last century, upon a criticism of life.
Page 90 - I am but saying that that youthful community will constitute a whole, it will embody a specific idea, it will represent a doctrine, it will administer a code of conduct, and it will furnish principles of thought and action. It will give birth to a living teaching, which in course of time will take the shape of a self-perpetuating tradition, or a genius loci, as it is sometimes called ; which haunts the home where it has been born, and which imbues and forms, more or less, and one by one, every individual...
Page 302 - ... minds are cleared, the more that the results of science are frankly accepted, the more that poetry and eloquence come to be received and studied as what in truth they really are, — the criticism of life by gifted men, alive and active with extraordinary power at an unusual number of points, — so much the more will the value of humane letters, and of art also, which is an utterance having a like kind of power with theirs, be felt and acknowledged, and their place in education be secured.
Page 300 - I imagine, grotesque; but really, under the shock of hearing from modern science that "the world is not subordinated to man's use, and that man is not the cynosure of things terrestrial...