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...Copeland lectured last evening on "Certain Contemporary Novelists," choosing Howells, Blackmore and George Meredith as examples...
Lecture. Certain Contemporary Novelists. Mr. Copeland. Sever...
Lecture. Certain Contemporary Novelists. Mr. Copeland. Sever...
back to its germ in Lessing. Carlyle and Emerson again have had a remarkable influence on their generation as kindlers of enthusiasm, lampada vitae, by constantly holding up a certain nobler ideal in contrast with the base connivances of our daily life, and by affirming the inalienable pre-eminence of the soul. Of original men, that is, of men who had an implicit faith in the validity of their own minds and the competency of their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other...
...save the huge baggage wagon of human progress from many a sorry jolt and sometimes even from such a total overturn as that of the French Revolution. 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...