Liberal Education : An Address Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College, July 22, 1858
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" Or how does the painter give to a little piece of canvas a value that endures for ages, and makes every beholder rich ? These artists had their sense of beauty cultivated by a reverent contempla- tion of natural forms and natural colors, their artistic powers of execution guided by a careful study of anat- omy, and of the laws of light and vision. What gives the musical composer his power to control the hearts of men ? His sensibilities have been cultivated by an 3 26 attention to the music o...f nature, and his artistic power guided by a knowledge of the laws of sound and of hearing. What can give a greater charm to the pages of literature and to the periods of the orator than fresh odors from the woods and fields, and living fig- ures from the wild creatures of his own country ? The hills of New England would furnish to a thoroughly trained New England orator, a honey of eloquence as sweet as that of the Athenian Hymettus. Where shall the metaphysician learn to correct the wandering of his thoughts and to keep his feet firmly planted upon the ground of common sense so surely as in the natu- ral sciences, where alone his theological speculations are secured against both pantheistic and atheistic ten- dencies, and where alone he can learn his true relation to the wholly mortal races, and his real points of supe- ribrity to them ?
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