...renown," and if he advised his countrymen to seek spiritual illumination by acquainting themselves with ".the best that has been thought and said in the world,' ' he at least practised what he preached. In these strained and overcrowded days one reads with a feeling...

...renown," and if he advised his countrymen to seek spiritual illumination by acquainting themselves with "the best that has been thought and said in the world," he at least practised what he preached. In these strained and overcrowded days one reads with a feeling...

...departments of human activity. Man has to know the physical universe, he has also to be made acquainted with " the best that has been thought and said in the world"; he has to know Nature and Human Nature ; Education has to embrace both " Bealism " and " Humanism." To...

...English literary group of meteoric brilliancy, over many of whom hung a singularly tragic fate. . . . He was a very great loss to a hurried generation which did not fail altogether to appreciate him. . . . Lionel Johnson had a genius for friendship. May he still, under cover of these (Essays . . ....

...the field of education. The teacher must be a man of culture, be in contact, as Matthew Arnold said, with the best that has been thought and said in the world. He must, thus, have breadth; an ample, generous assortment of knowledge must be his mental food ; his...