Institutes of Education Comprising An Introduction to Rational Psychology
Institutes of Education Comprising An Introduction to Rational Psychology
Simon Somerville Laurie
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It sums up the character of actions, and has a function in the sphere of the emotions similar to formulated state- ments in the sphere of knowledge. Still less is it to be held that the poetic or other eloquent expression of moral sentiment is ever out of place. On the contrary, so long as a poem or rhetorical prose expresses ethical sentiments or ideas which are fairly well understood, they are powerful agents in building up the ethical ideal at every stage of education ; especially when, as i...n the case of poetry, the words are allied with music 222 Institutes of Education. [LECT. in the school. For, all that has to do with the expres- sion of the ideal, in words or in beautiful forms, is moralising, simply because it is ideal. Precepts and dogmas, however, are generalisations, and no generalisation, as I have so often said, has any meaning except in so far as it sums up particular experiences. In the intellectual sphere, particular experiences are percepts and concepts (individual) of things; in the ethical sphere they are the acts of the learner himself, or of his teacher and companions, or the imaginative realising of the acts of others as narrated in prose or poetry.
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