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...tendency of State Socialism has been toward success. There have been but few mistakes, and the advance of this moral sentiment has been regular, and rapid. The opening of the suffrage has added to the power of the movement. The ideal of the sentiment is to make the state an organism composed of many parts, each of which shall have wishes and desires of its own embodied in the state...
...essay on "Marlowe and His Times" shows familiarity with subject. Mr. Norton has also presented it in an attractive diction. His philosophy may be attacked, but his style is fully in accord with the high ideal of the editors of the Monthly...
...issue, one cannot help wishing that the ballad by Mr. Houghton had been inspired by a more optimistic view. The beauty of these verses is not heightened, at all events, by the gloomy theme. The other poems are graceful, but on the whole not characterized by forcible thought. The ideal portrayed by Mr. Fullerton is applicable to poetry as well as to novels...
...better purposes, and makes them firmer and finer than they could have become if directed by himself alone." The substance of the elective system is given in a single sentence, fixed quantity and quality of study, variable topic." The great moral help to students under this new ideal lies in the fact that "it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character, it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will to study something. . . . The will is honored as of prime...
...time-honored English universities, instead of holding up an ideal of sound learning and disinterested study, and checking the present Chinese current of popular belief, have degraded into mere examining machines. In the place of the calm pursuit of knowledge and the encouragement of original research, we have the hot competition of slaving undergraduates-for students we cannot call them,-who are taught that learning is of no value except in so far as it brings profit to themselves. Many of the mischievours results of the examination-system at these "ancient seats of learning," though now of cram, have already...