Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those interested in any form of culture; and yet it is not at all improbable that hundreds of students within the University regard the play with apathy. To them we speak. The play will make one of the most noteworthy events that, from the scholarly point of view, has ever been seen at Harvard. The undertaking is unprecedented; and the preparation has been made complete. The dress rehearsal last night left no doubt possible as to the success of the play. To witness it is, in all truth. a rare opportunity, not slightly to be esteemed...
...that we see round the object, and not only that, but also that we have two images of it, each subtending a different angle and so 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...
Especially is criticism a comparative science demanding the contemporaneous presence in the memory of many conclusions arrived at through much mistake, much change of opinions adopted on a too narrow basis of facts for a true induction. 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...
...evident, then, that our condition is extremely crude and unsatisfactory; that some change must be made in order to harmonize and centralize our forces. With this important end in view, I have to propose the following plan: That the one of the existing clubs which maintains the highest standard of debating be recognized as the chief debating body of the University, and accept its position without arrogance; that the other acknowledge itself subordinate to the first; that the first take in immediately all the members of the latter who are up to its standard; that other subordinate debating clubs...
...Montaigne's unconscious errand was not to break away from tradition, but to show that the past was even more valuable in certain ways as contrast than as example. In literature, the ability to make such contrasts is of incalculable advantage, nay, of prime necessity in acquiring breadth of view, and in defining our impressions more sharply. Without it, no man can be a critic. It was this which, in the absence of any original contemporary literature, gave to the classics that preponderance which degenerated into superstition. But the same result may be reached by the study of any literature...