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Excerpt from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1890, Vol. 5
And In this mood the Modern Languages add largely to our resources. It may be wrong to be happy unless In the grand style, but it is perilously agreeable. And Shall we say that the litera ture of the last three centuries Is Incompetent to put a healthy strain upon the more strenuoris faculties Of the mind? That it does not appeal to and satisfy the mind's loftier desires? That dante, machiavelli, montaigne, bacon, shakespeare, cervantes, pascal, calderon, lessing, and he of Weim'ar in whom carlyle and so many others have fouiid their Univer sity, that none of these set our thinking gear in motion to as good purpose as any ancient of them all? Is it less instructive to study the growth of modern ideas than of ancient? Is the awakening of the modern world to consciousness and its first tentative, then fuller, then rapturous expression of it.
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