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...said that modern crities are altogether too apt to overlook the difficulties which the early painters had to encounter when they first started the Renaissance movement. People find fault with their pictures because they differ from modern paintings, but they do these old masters injustice to compare them with modern artists. Even if they are not understood now-a-days the Italians were skilful painters for the times in which they lived; in fact, one of the chief causes for this lack of appreciation is that the old masters worked under the inspiration of religion, while nature was a comparatively...
...Same general fault...
...Copeland brought out clearly and forcibly the virtues and the faults of the old-comedy writers. No one felt the influence of the Puritan spirit less than Wycherly, Congreve and Farquaar. These men saw the follies and fashions of the time, thought they represented real life and as such chose to depict them. Now we realize that the world they lived in was only the artificial world. An example of a contemporary production which suffers from the same fault is Mr. Oscar Wilde's "A Woman of No Importance...
...agree with. There are undoubtedly cases where the freedom of college life does unfit men for business; there is even such a thing as the "university fool" who is unfitted for everything. But he is not a typical college man. If he graduates a fool it is not the fault of the college but of the man himself...
...knows men, knows their motives and their actions; if he is a master of himself and of circumstances; if his mind leaps quickly and surely to conclusions, he is fitted for business. If a man does not get this adaptability from the college he alone is at fault. The man who is spoiled by his college course would probably never have succeeded any better in business. True, the college man is four years behind the non-college man. But his adaptability and his knowledge ought to be of more service, in the long run, than four years of narrow training...