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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, On an old Latin text-book. (search)
each dwelt on an island, and hailed his neighbor each morning in good chest tones, to tell him the news. It is the farthest possible from the style of a poet or an artist, but it is the style of that ideal man for whom Huxley longs, whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order, ready, like a steam-engine, to be turned to all kinds of work. In Huxley himself this type of writing is seen at the greatest advantage; Froude and Seeley have much the same; and books like the Essays on a liberal education, put together by a dozen different Oxford and Cambridge men, exhibit but one style,--a style that goes straight to the mark and will stand no nonsense. It is all very well, so far, and this is doubtless better than carving the bow till it breaks, as in Aesop's fable; but is there not room in the world for both science and art, use and beauty? If a page is good that tells truth plainly, may not another page have merit that