...contrary decision, I should not have remained silent till now. My function is that of the assthetic, not the doctrinal teacher, — the rousing of the...moved by social sympathy, is often not the best judge. It is one thing to feel keenly for one's fellow-beings ; another to say, " This step, and this alone,...

...viewed its functions :— ' My function is that of the (esthetic, not the ' doctrinal teacher—the rousing of the nobler ' emotions, which make mankind...by social sympathy, ' is often not the best judge. It is one thing ' to feel keenly for one's fellow-being; another ' to say, " This step, and this alone,...

...health or other apparent causes. In this way a past despondency has turned to a present hopefulness. My function is that of the esthetic not the doctrinal...moved by social sympathy, is often not the best judge. It is one thing to feel keenly for one's fellowbeings ; another to say, " This step, and this alone,...

...with the moods which those ideas had called up. " My function," she said " is that of the aesthetic, not the doctrinal teacher — the rousing of the nobler...by social sympathy, is often not the best judge." Her influence in this direction over serious and impressionable minds was great indeed. The spirit...

...assures her friend Mrs. Peter Taylor that she looks upon her function as "that of the aesthetic, not doctrinal teacher — the rousing of the nobler emotions,...social right, not the prescribing of special measures." f To the same effect she writes to Charles Bray,J " If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does...

...assures her friend Mrs. Peter Taylor that she looks upon her function as " that of the aesthetic, not doctrinal teacher — the rousing of the nobler emotions,...social right, not the prescribing of special measures." f To the same effect she writes to Charles Bray,J " If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does...

...complexity."— George Eliot, from a Letter, August 15, 1866. " My function is that of the aathetic, not the doctrinal teacher— the rousing of the nobler...which make mankind desire the social right, not the prescription oi special measures.— Ib., Letter, July 18, 187S." " This Is We to come. Which martyred...

...herself has said (as quoted in Cross's ' Life,' Vol. III.) : " My function is that of the aesthetic, not the doctrinal teacher ; the rousing of the nobler...by social sympathy, is often not the best judge," yet it would seem as though she did not fully realize the degree to which, especially in her later...

...nobler emotions that make mankind desire the social right, not the prescribing of special 1ueasures, concerning which the artistic mind, however strongly...moved by social sympathy, is often not the best judge. » (Life, by J. \V. Cross ; vol. m, p. 33o.) Wordsworth. Avec eux, le romantisme anglais choisit définitivement...

...that of the <csthéticj not the doctrinal teac!-er — the rousing of the nobler emotions that moke mankind desire the social right, not the prescribing of special measures, concerning which the arlistic mind, however strongly movrd by social syinpathy, is often not the best judge. » (Life, by...