Divine, illuminating nations of scouts! Vitaelampada tradunt.
It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of its progress.
The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of imagination.
Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people.
Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no.◥思◥兔◥網◥文◥檔◥共◥享◥與◥在◥線◥閱◥讀◥
Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a bastard.
He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso:
but he must be artistic.
In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must sublime.
On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of the ideal.
The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, the socially beautiful.
Eden will be reconstructed by A B. At the point which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated.
Art, which is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance.
The modern spirit is the geniu