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Loyalty and Insight.........JOSIAH ROYCE
IX. LITERATURE AND ART.
27. Poetry for Poetry's Sake.... A.C. BRADLEY
28. Greek Tragedy................G. LOWES DICKINSON
29. Shakespeare..................THOMAS CARLYLE
30. Charles Lamb.................WALTER PATER
31. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment...NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
32. Markheim.....................ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS.
With some topics for Discussion and Composition.

ENGLISH PROSE


SELF-RELIANCE[1]
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which
were original and not conventional. Always the soul hears an admonition
in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil
is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own
thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men,--that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it
shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the
outmost--and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of
the Last Judgment.


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