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æsthetic ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN Apollonius of Rhodes artistic Auguste Comte beauty better called class-room cultivation culture definite desire discipline edge ence enlargement eral Euglena exercise experience fact faculties feel force gain give Greek habit humane letters ical ideal ideas imagination instinct intel intellectual interest judgment kind knowl language learning less liberal education literary literature living mankind matter means ment mental methods mind modern Molière moral nations natural knowledge never object Paradise Lost person philosophy physical science Plato pleasure poet poetry practical present principles professional Professor Huxley pupils question reader reading result scholar scientific sense soul spirit student taste teachers teaching things Thomas à Kempis THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY thought tion to-day true truth ture undergraduates understand University whole words
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Page 333 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
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 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 179 - Our business was (precluding matters of Theology and state affairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physick, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, staticks, magneticks, chymicks, mechanicks, and natural experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home and abroad.
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 301 - Why should it be one thing, in its effect upon the emotions, to say, 'Patience is a virtue,' and quite another thing, in its effect upon the emotions, to say with Homer, 'for an enduring heart have the destinies appointed to the children of men'?
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 308 - ... period of unsettlement and confusion and false tendency; but letters will not in the end lose their leading place. If they lose it for a time, they will get it back again. We shall be brought back to them by our wants and aspirations.
Page 282 - ... outfit a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special local and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress which most thoroughly carries out this programme.