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...nobler sort, - possible only in a generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false in men. His character is consistent throughout, and a great though peculiar one. While he is as noble a man as is to be met with once in an age, still it is perhaps more pleasant to have that meeting take place in a book than in real life. He is one of those persons who are always misjudged, and judged only by the poorer side of their characters. Should we meet him tomorrow, we should set him down...
...something or other. Kenelm Chillingly would appear to be the type of culture; though, in adding this to an already great array, we are shamefully conscious of taking our very little share in that too hot pursuit of types which is said to be a failing of the present age. Kenelm Chillingly is distinguished from other men by his love of independence, not an independence of order and proper restraint, but an independence of cant and conventionality; by his love for learning and contempt for pedantry; by his charity for all men, and by his desire for a thorough cultivation...
...generally admitted that all educated men, at some time in their lives, write poetry. Many acquire the habit at an early age, and go about shedding blotted scraps of paper from their pockets with an infantile-Byronic air, to the delight of their mothers and to the horror of all reasonable people; others stave off the evil hour until they fall in love, when, inspired, I suppose, by the object of their sonnets, they often astonish every one but themselves by the excellence of their verses, just as madmen have been known to develop powers of which their hours...
...good or bad fortune of the present age to be one of intellectual tumult and revolution. The Christian world, like a man just awakening to the knowledge of his own faculties, has begun to question the truth of what it has been taught to accept as dogma. On the one hand, science, made confident by its recent achievements, assails the very foundations of the Christian religion, rejecting with scorn testimony and proof which require standards of judgment other than those of the exact sciences; while, on the other, literature, or rather the champion of the "literary theory of culture," refuses...
...persuasive in his arguments, but "goes for" class feeling as an abolitionist might have spoken against slavery. He says: "Its atmosphere is stifling, and its fetters galling." Rather strong language, I think, to apply to the friendship which naturally exists between one or two hundred young men of like age, having like studies, and the same interests and pursuits in general. This writer longs for the time when "pseudo-unity of spirit will no longer be a palliative of transgression and a plea for distinction." He calls class feeling "the curse of our college," decidedly fails to establish the fact...