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Excerpt from Materials for the Study of English Literature and Compositon: Selections From Newman, Arnold, Huxley, Ruskin, and Carlyle
The unifying purpose governing the Choice of the material is to present the opinions of great English thinkers of the last century on the nature and significance of literature, its relation to science, and its place and value in education. To this end the volume opens with selections from Newman and Arnold dealing with the questions: What are the ends of education? What is the meaning of liberal knowledge or culture, and what is its relation to professional knowledge and to virtue? Following these, by means of four essays of Huxley's, the student is introduced to the question of the relative values of literature and science in education. The selections are so Chosen as to give the comments of both Arnold and Huxley on each other's theories on this subject, to the end that their controversy may stimulate the student to think for himself about it. Next in order is printed Ruskin's Unto this Last, a book which, by its criticism of the classical Political Economy, Offers an illustration of the relation of literature to science and of the possible value of the one to the other, and at the same time opens many interesting questions as to the bearing of literary ideals on the ethics of business. The final selection in the volume, Carlyle's Hero as Poet, is a kind of summing up of the whole matter, presenting Carlyle's view Of literature as an expression of thought, and indicating the connection of literature to other forms of thought through his idea of the Hero as a man who sees and teaches his fellows, whether by words or actions, more of the meaning of life than they could see for themselves.
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