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...James Martineau, the well-known teacher and writer, has a wonderful personal influence. The mere sight of him seems to make a man half afraid but at the same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...
...More of Martineau's "Types of Ethical Theory" and of Von Holst's "Constitutional...
...More of Martineau's "Types of Ethical Theory" and of Von Holst's "Constitutional...
...More of Martineau's "Types of Ethical Theory" and of Von Holst's "Constitutional...
...twelve authors at most can be studied during the year. We have absolutely no opportunity as far as I know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses of instruction granted to us in which we can learn something about...