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...avowed object of a political party. And, when a man in whose hands the welfare of the people has been entrusted by a great commonwealth, can be persuaded to come here and explain the principles and methods by which some of the greatest intellects of the age hope to perpetuate that welfare, there are some who feel considerable bitterness at his exclusion, and would like better explanations of that action than they have yet received...
...same time it may be questioned whether contemporaries do not always stand more or less in the relation of valets-de-chambre to the age in which they live, and whether there be not something in nearness which is fatal to the heroic. If Prometheus had a Boswell, would not the vulture have been Niebuhrized into the liver-complaint, and he himself, the thief of fire from heaven, into a palaeozoic Dr. Franklin who amused himself with electrical experiments? The truth is that so long as the nature of man is dual, so long as he is an animal...
III.The Practical and the Ideal.But ours is a utilitarian age, and what is the use of studying the belles lettres? I would find its use in the very existence of that utilitarian tendency. The mind may become as unbalanced through over-practicalism as through over-idealism, and boast as we may of the triumphs of science in its application to commerce and the arts of life, it is still only the achievements of the imagination that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that...
...regular meeting of the Christian Association was conducted in Holden Chapel last evening by P. H. Savage, of the Divinity School, in place of Mr. J. M. W. Hall, who was unable to be present. Mr. Savage dwelt upon the pessimism of the age in which we live, and spoke of the many ways of overcoming the difficulties which are constantly besetting us. We must, said he, learn to face the world and receive its abuse and censure. Our only help at such times is in the Lord. If we trust in Him, He is willing...
...wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder, endowing us with the shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness, so that we walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators...