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After his graduation from Harvard in '46 Professor Norton travelled for several years in Europe and Italy, where he made a special study of Dante. One of his first and best known works was a book on Italian Churches. He was an intimate friend of Ruskin and later edited his works. He also edited the Carlyle correspondence, and the Lowell correspondence. His editing of the Carlyle-Goethe and the Carlyle-Emerson correspondences was most important and valuable in correcting the impression made by Froude. His contributions to the early pages of the North American Review, of which...
...Ruskin's views on architecture as given in his Seven Lamps of Architecture practical...
...Ruskin's Art-teaching...
...Ruskin justified in his condemnation of English political economists...
...Impartiality of judgment is incompatible with anything but entireness of view, and that entireness is only approximately attainable as the resultant average of divers impressions, the issue of as many moods. It was the many-sidedness of Goethe's culture that made him so sane and sure a judge. Ruskin has been 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...