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Both Tennyson and Browning, Mr. Copeland said, have done more than express the feeling of the moment. They have expressed the poetic feeling of the second half of the nineteenth century, just as Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Coleridge have done for the first half. From a standpoint of substance, rather than of form, Tennyson and Browning stand at opposite poles. Tennyson represents the spirit of science and law, while Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth...
...that while there may be much indifference and indecisiveness in the world, it need not be simply on account of scientific training. This we have seen may lead to indecision, but it need not if we make use of it only to fit our minds for an objective standpoint, and if we remember the distinction between the fundamental principles in the domains of science and of conduct...
Looking upon the development of character from the most selfish standpoint, when we try only to make ourselves good and strong, it is easy to see that a thing most necessary and helpful is the doing of good to others. No character can be noble or strong that is wrapped up in itself, for a selfish and self-centered man is the meanest and most hopeless of all creatures. But every one can find some way of doing good in his daily work. It is not necessary that everybody should be a founder or even a helper of great charitable...
...Customs Union is undesirable from a Canadian standpoint. Canadan is industrially far behind the United States. A tariff policy framed by the larger and more powerful nation would necessarily be unfit for the weaker...
...decisive debates with Yale and Princeton. This would do much to quicken the interest in speaking both by enlarging the circle of rivalry and by giving a much larger number of men an opportunity to represent the University. Such an arrangement would also, probably, be acceptable from the standpoint of the smaller colleges. Such practice also would undoubtedly raise the standard of speaking in all the colleges, and since no man would take part in more than one practice and one decisive debate, an undue amount of time would not be absorbed...