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Speaking before Radcliffe seniors and their families. Woodworth drew together concepts from the works of Alfred North Whitehead, from the Bible, and from a biography of Coleridge by John Livingston Lowes. Perhaps the most important of these notions was that of "the habitual vision of greatness," which Woodworth took from Whitehead...
...Understanding in the heart," said Woodworth, "and wisdom in the inward parts" come "most readily, most surely, most happily" from this vision--which is to be found in "the world of nature" and "in the beauty of music, and poetry, and art, and literature, in the empire of the mind...
...Woodworth had more to say about the way in which music, poetry, art and literature could affect a man's life. He discussed at length "the Deep Well of human experience"--a phrase used in Lowe's The Road to Xanadu--and he hoped his listeners would be able to draw upon this well "for solace, and comfort, and strength, and inspiration...
...what are some of the deposits in the Deep Well?" Woodworth asked. He suggested several: "Poetry, painting, novels, Milton, Shakespeare, Sophocles, the Bible, nature, and landscape, and the heavens above." And there is also, he said, "the Well of human associations: Your fellow students, a true friend, inspiring teacher...
...Deep Well, in which occur "obscure and powerful reactions below the level of conscious mental processes," which Woodworth felt to be the underlying foundation of "the kingdom of poetry, the world of the creative imagination, and one's own personal life...