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...aristocratic. It should only be the privilege of a small number, and not the common rule for all. Moreover, this instruction draws too exclusively on antique sources. It presents us with the society of antiquity in its most flourishing condition. Sparta, Athens, Rome, are shown us as ideal republics. Now it is well known how false the ideas of antiquity were upon what is to-day the very foundation of modern society. It is known what account it made of personal liberty, property, work, etc. Yet once again, it is not the instruction in itself that I decry...
...impersonation is the best, in so far as it is the most "perfect piece of acting." But with those who look for the highest and noblest conception, and who are willing to accept it, though its imperfections be manifest, Edwin Booth will still be the nearest approach to their ideal...
...name, dim-haunted by the ideal frown...
...calls them, are wasting their time, if they consider that the great object of this three years' stay at the University is to make themselves accomplished watermen. Before ending with a prayer that what is really an amusement may not become a profession, he says: "The University ideal should be as high as possible. To hold up success in examination as the natural end of three years' exertion, is a very questionable doctrine; but it is still worse when athletic competition comes to stand upon the same level of popular applause...
...mind as open, as that of any other nation in the world. Simply, we have never been able, or known how, to take advantage of our resources. We are a people of routine, bound down by the deadly fetters of a bigoted clergy, which abhors everything modern, whose ideal is in the past, in the dark centuries of the Middle Ages. What, then, is lacking to the French as a nation? Only wise direction and government...