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Greek symmetry and structure, with the Greek sanity and self-control. The teacher's instinct, the historic sense, the definer of culture. Concrete epithets - white - flowering nettle, gold-flowered bloom, golddusted snap-dragon.

It is as absurd to accept plausibility of proof from a mathematicin as to look for exactness of proof from a rhetorician, i. All subjects do not admit of the same degree of exactness in treatment - there is the scientific method and the literary, and either is out of place where the other should be used. Aristotle "I, Wisdom dwell with subtlety," says the Wise Man. Cutlure, righteousness, noble seriousiness, urbanity, and courtesy.

Tom Brown as the approach to the Arnolds [Loret L'o evdaipowr Bios irat apizy o eival' ouios L'e prata otioudys, add' oue evtiaidia, - ?] Aristotle's Ethiccs, Bk 10, ch. 6. "To times we did not call our being must keep [chime?]

Seizes upon the best side and dwells upon 3 that, merely re-making briefly the sad note if that exists.

Seeks always for something which can really feed us, really nourish us, instead of offering us Dead Sea apples of criticism.

A poet in criticism, a sympathetic imagination enables him to identify himself with his author and reach his heart.

Stedman another poet critic, Lowell another.

Breadthe of religious sympathy perhaps the gift of the poet to the critic

Justin Mc Carthy says the Parnellites were friendly to [Forstee?], at first, & would have wished him success in Ireland, if for no other reason than because he was the brother-in-law of Matthew Arnold.

Arnold's method the literary method, as distinguished from the metaphysical [is the - crossed out] and from the mathematical. But its laying illustrative examples of his meaning before you, [while y- crossed out] letting your conclusion from these examples form in your mind gradually until you are generally

quite ready to assent when he 4 states his own final conclusion. For one good example of this method see his essay on the Study of Celtic Literature especially the part relating to the characteristics of the Celts, the [Tartin?], the Norman, the Englishman, the German etc.

He reviles metaphysics, but is so far from reviling philosophy that he is himself a [kind of - crossed out] philosopher.

[toivuv?] - a mannerism -

Two classes of minds are drawn toward the subjects line of ideas which [survived?] to belong to underlie metaphysics [being - crossed out] But one class calls them being [?], altruism science, existence, subject, object - and so on; the other is more apt to speak of truths man, neighbor, duty, conduct, poetry. Both start from a longing to get at the heart of things, "to me then as they really are", but the two are {petr - crossed out] perpetually at odds, because the language that is native and dear to one is but "sound and fury signifying

nothinkg," to the other. 5

Classic in self-control and calm, romantic in the spirit of his treatment of nature - see Bacchanalier -

[Notice whether he retains the same epithet for things in Homeric fashions - white-flowering nettle occuring Scholar Types & Thymes - crossed out]

[The accident of first [appritacle?]important be in case of most authors, doubly so when the author is - crossed out] ___________________

The religious struggle which a Mr J thomas Arnold must have passed through to stand where Matthew Arnold stands today is even not only in the [oberman?] [preens?] The grand [Character?], Thymes, Rusty Chapel, Morality - [Eufidicles?] Dover Beach out in some of the earlier themes The new series -In [Utrunique?] Paratus - A question, (closure of subject showingly [Mycerinus?] -

7 which from the first has touched his spirit is not as much right [but - crossed out] as duty and long since the latter word won the battle. This does not mean that he was a quietest by nature, that he hs not longed passionately for happiness, to order his life as he would. May if not be that in the very intensity of this personal desire lies the secret of insensitiveness to others wants? As if those insensible to moral pain that the stoic doctrine fascinates? Is there not a modern stoicism, which while not insisting upon the [subjection - crossed out] destruction of the causes while acknowledging the night of passions, the weakness of the flesh, even if only that the spirit demands shall rule?

Rugby Chapel - The Lord's Messenger

The Future - The Bried Life - To Marguerite 4+5, _______________ (The Terrace at Bene -) Human Life - _______________

A son of Dr. Arnold, a Rugby boy, a student at oxford when Newman's boice was stealing into men's souls listening also, as he himself has told us to the vices of Goethe, of Carlyle, of Emerson, it is not strange that he yielded to the spell cast in all ages over five spirits, [strike out - the spell lying I] the words life, - human life. And first it is individual life against the world, that occupies him - the relations I

Democratic Tendencies in the Nineteenth Century as Revealed in England and American Literature.

An effort to analyze and interpret the life of our people in our own century is almost as presumptious an undertaking as that to penetrate the secrets of our own hearts. Self-love proverbially stands in the way of self-knowledge: we are too near ourselves no doubt

to see ourselves clearly; and we recognize something of the same difficult nearness when we turn and face the century we have just left behind us in the calendar though for good or ill we carry it onward with us in our blood. We are bone of its bone, flesh of its flesh, and can make no pretense to disintested judgement. Yet self-examination is often fascinating and sometimes salutary; and an honest effort to bring

Possibly a good many of us will part company on the definition of the word democracy. The trouble here lies in the fact that democracy, unlike the terms bar farism, tyranny, government, family, names not something that is past or present, not something that has been or is, but something that is in process of becoming. Or, if that is [illegible] the question, then we may say it names an ideal form of human society dimly [illegible] in curtain of

the Greek [Greek?] commonwealths and in the more liberal modern [modern?] state, a form ignorantly and vainly assumed by some philosophers to have existed in the primitive world, and as vainly sought by some social dreamers to be established out of hand in the present; yet an ideal that as an ideal is gradually growing more and more distinct, more and more rich, more and more alluring. Christ may be said to have uttered in the eleventh commandment its inmost