Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although there is difficulty about the realization of this idea, the idea in itself is so good that it must at least be kept in mind as a desirable possibility...
...welfare, not for the good of the country. And these vagabonds may be said to be a representative body of American people, for always since the founding of the nation, have states, corporations, and individuals continually sought to make the governing bodies pass laws for their personal benefit. "Never mind the country," they say, "just pass this law for us." With such a state of things, is there not need of patriotism? And if there is need of intelligent men who will sacrifice themselves for their country, it is to the coming generation that we must look for help...
...domain of conduct, for this latter is the study of our relations with our fellow men. In the domain of conduct we must, not as in science, have first ideas and conform to them acts and facts. Such ideas are meant as those instinctive in the human mind, as personal freedom, popular autonomy, and social justice. These always have been controlling agencies of society...
...give from German poetry of the effect produced by genius, thought, and feeling expressing themselves in clear language, simple language, passionate language, eloquent language, with harmony and melody; but not of the peculiar effect exercised by eminent power of style. Every reader of Dante can at once call to mind what the peculiar effect I mean is; I spoke of it in my lectures on translating Homer, and there I took an example of it from Dante, who perhaps manifests it more eminently than any other poet. But from Milton, too, one may take examples of it abundantly; compare this...
...without the basis of style everywhere, faults though it may in some place be, we should not have had the beauty of expression, unsurpassable for effectiveness and charm, which is reached in Shakespeare's best passages. The turn for style is perceptible all through English poetry, proving, to my mind, the genuine poetical gift of the race; this turn imparts to our poetry a stamp of high distinction, and sometimes it doubles the force of a poet not by nature of the very highest order, such as Gray, and raises him to a rank beyond what his natural richness...