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...discarded toga of Cincinnatus. All literary Europe is agog over Benedetto Croce who poses, and by many is accepted, as the Doctor Johnson of his day. Scholar, statesman, and philosopher, his most recent work in the field of literary criticism is an astonishing volume upon "European Literature of the Nineteenth Century...
Again the United States stands almost convicted of being the country par excellence in which native poets and story-tellers are allowed to sink into unmerited eclipse. By his well-tempered eulogy J. P. Collins, writing in the London Nineteenth Century, shames Bret Harte's countrymen, and typifies the mre appreciative and more sustained consideration which American writers seem to find only abroad...
...nineteenth century saw. Babbitt succeed Napoleon as conqueror of the world. Yet the same century saw the most extravagant, play of individualism of any age in history. Chateaubriand, Hugo, DeMusset, Devigny in France--Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats in England...developed their genius in the face of, and often in protest against the deadening influence of commercialism, industrialism, and materialism...
Apropos of the Rev. Mr. Potter's discussion of the social menace of Fundamentalism, the question not unnaturally arises of the social benefits of Modernism. It is a recognized historical fact that religion during the nineteenth century suffered a marked decline. And with a diminishing interest in religion itself there followed almost inevitably a lowering of ethical and moral standards. In the popular mind religious belief and moral conduct have such a very close relation that when the verity of traditional beliefs is doubted and rejected, observance of traditional codes of conduct suffers in consequence...
...dismay of the worthy rector is too close a copy of the early nineteenth century reaction in English universities. The stupid oppression of nearsighted authority drove Shelley from Oxford, when he published a pamphlet on atheism. It could not see that these were the growing pains of vigorous young intellect. It could not foresee that the orthodoxy whose purity they tried to maintain unattached by heresy, would pale gradually before the onslaught of the mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science...