Lectures and Essays (Literary)

He reads the whole man in the mastepieces of an author and the whole volume in some sentences pregnant with the meaning of the whole and the message of the writer. [...] Seek for Socrates and you will find him but you must make your vision keen and nice for the purpose in Plat& and Xenophon in the Cyrenaic and Epicurean lover of pleasure in the world-defying Cynic philosopher of the tub and the stern ascetic of the Stoa and in the entire thought culture and theology of Europe prChristian and Christian as penetrated by the genius of Plato and Aristotle [...] In that knowledge the best impulses of the head and the heart co-operate in giving rise to that right view of things of men of sections and communities of men in themselves and in their relation to one another in the everchanging scenes and situations of political life and history which is the best guarantee for the right regulation of the state. [...] There is no pretension of knowledge where really there is none and he takes his stand upon the ground of the simplest reality —and yet how firm how peaceful that is !"36 The truthfulnesS of a philosopher the simple trust of a child the resignation of the saint the victory of the martyr combine in that mood of calm and peace in which he is prepared to lay down the burden of life in the bosom [...] Arthur of the " In Memoriam" and Arthur of the " Idylls " in their subtle blening through the magic art of the poet is an ideal of personality that the Indian student has learned * A paper read in the Overtoun Hall on the occasion of the Centenary of Tennyson's birth—August 6 tgog."39 to admire and to love.