Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
An expert on Greek Art chanced to describe in my hearing one of the engraved gems in the Metropolitan Museum. He spoke of it as ‘certainly one of the great gems of the world,’ and there was something in his tone that was even more thrilling than his words. He might have been d...
An expert on Greek Art chanced to describe in my hearing one of the engraved gems in the Metropolitan Museum. He spoke of it as ‘certainly one of the great gems of the world,’ a...
2. Part 2There are, then, in the modern world these two influences which are hostile to education,--the influence of business and the influence of uninspired science. In Europe these inf...
3. Part 3In America, society has been reorganized since 1870; the old universities have been totally changed and many new ones founded. The money to do this has come from the business wo...
4. Part 4In the days of Æschylus the Athenian audience was made up of God-fearing, conservative people who could be moved to awe by the contemplation of religious ideas, and by pictures...
5. Part 5The world of idea is what you are seeking, no matter how sure you may be that you want realism. The power of a play comes from this, that it makes people believe that the action...
6. Part 6In 1844, about seventeen years after the planting of this Corinthian colony Howe returned to the Isthmus in the course of his wedding journey. “As he rode through the principal...
7. Part 7It is not because of any one thing that he has done or said that Howe is important. It is because he was by nature endowed with an unconscious, spontaneous vision of truth in re...
8. Part 8It is the man that makes this unity--this stained-glass window through which truth shines. The artists have had a monopoly of logic, and are the only people who get the credit o...
9. Part 9There is profound truth at the bottom of these ideas; for whether you accept this truth in the form of the Christian doctrine of humility, or in the form of the Pagan doctrine o...
10. Part 10Put a Chinaman into your hospital and he will be cared for. You may lie awake at night drawing up reasons for doing something different with this disgusting Chinaman--who, someh...
11. Part 11Yet in spite of his will there were plenty of things that Christ himself could not do, as, for instance, change the world at once, or change it at all except through the slow pr...
12. Part 12I do not know whether it was the result of Dr. Coit’s own prophetic nature or the result of a more reasoned theory about the education of boys; but the fact remains that at St....