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...which tests and gauges the quality and amount of his character, the only thing of permanent value in him. Character is not merely individuality, but individuality acting with force and steadiness in a given direction. Perhaps among all literary men Dante is the highest type of this. In modern times, Voltaire (with all his weaknesses) and Lessing, and among living men Carlyle and Emerson, are examples of the same thing. This need not and does not, you will observe, imply any absolute originality, if indeed there be such a thing. Freedom of thought is deeply indebted to Voltaire, and German...
...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 man cut loose the modern from the ancient world, and emancipated the human mind from a pedantic and slavish deference to the past. I do not mean that he did it consciously, but he had the courage to trust in his own instincts and to read the world with his own eyes...
Some interesting facts may be gleaned from the last annual report of the board of directors charged with the care of Girard College. Changes which the founder would not have contemplated have been introduced and modern appliances such as he and his generation never dreamed of are now in daily use. The report says: "The ancient curriculum of the college, admirable, perhaps, in the early history of the institution, with less than five hundred scholars, but without many of the plans and appliances which modern modes of thought and of action make necessary for efficient work in the school-room...
...Modern Language Conference. Reports on Periodicals. Sever...
...Modern Language Conference. Reports on Periodicals. Sever...