Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...judgment requires is range, and this is only acquired by trigonometrical exactness in establishing the position and measuring the relations of isolated points. Moreover, what a man has just learned is not to be called knowledge. It continues for a good while yet a foreign substance in the mind and becomes a pearl only by dint of that fretting which proves its alienate, and which compels us to coat it with the substance of our own life and thought and so to assimilate it with ourselves. Wordsworth said that "Poetry was violent emotion remembered in tranquility," that is, when...
...modifying each other as to produce truth in the resultant impression. And even then, it is only repeated experience from different points of view which enables us to see even familiar objects precisely as they are. The same is true, nay, almost more true, of the eyes of the mind, and the defining of transient images into precise and permanent ideas, real possessions of the soul...
...accused of inconsistency only because he has made us partakers of his separate processes of study instead of waiting till he could give us the precipitate of assured wisdom which would deposit itself from the combination of all. Perhaps a certain amount of such inconsistency is inevitable in a mind like his. He is the Demosthenes of criticism, who always has a client to defend or a criminal to attack, and he is perfectly right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms are never false in form. Moreover...
...soul. But remember that your highest duty to your University begins when your immediate connection with it ceases,- that every scholar is bound to become in turn a teacher, a missionary of the higher culture, showing its beauty in his life no less than in the product of his mind, carrying that lamp of enthusiasm which you have kindled here into the dusky chambers of ignorance and into the drearier darkness of a belief in merely material prosperity. It is in performing this duty that "the teachers shall shine." Coming as I do from the oldest College in the country...
...discord and discontent, faith cannot fail to bring peace and quiet to man for that which we believe the world to be, it becomes to us. The Christian is characteristically a believer, and has ceased trying to solve those spiritual problems which are beyond the reach of the finite mind...