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...told that perfection of form can be learned only of the Greeks, and it is certainly true that many among them attained to, or developed out of some hereditary germ of aptitude, a sense of proportion and of the helpful relation of parts to the whole organism which other races mostly grope after in vain. Spenser, in the enthusiasm of his new Platonism, tells us that "Soul is form,and doth the body make," and no doubt this is true of the highest artistic genius. Form without soul, the most obsequious observance of the unities, the most perfect a priori...
back to its germ in Lessing. Carlyle and Emerson again have had a remarkable influence on their generation as kindlers of enthusiasm, lampada vitae, by constantly holding up a certain nobler ideal in contrast with the base connivances of our daily life, and by affirming the inalienable pre-eminence of the soul. Of original men, that is, of men who had an implicit faith in the validity of their own minds and the competency of their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other...
TUTORING in French A, Germ...
TUTORING in French A, Germ...
...Germ. Phil. 12. Mathematics...