FRIDAY
THE 20th-CMITURI
Rzybiantok
(Taken from Stendhalfs
"History of Painting
in Italy" and trans
lated into English by
Francis Klo6lspelo
The world has never seen
anything more novel than
a body of twenty-eight
million men speaking the
same language and laugh
ing at the same things.
How long, in the arts,
will our character lie
buried under imitation?
re, the greatest people
that ever existed (yes,
even after 1815), we
imitate the tiny tribes
of Greece, which alto
gether could scarcely
number two or three mi.—
lion inhabitants.
When shall I see a people
reared solely upon a rec—
ognition of the useful
and the harmful,' without
talk of Jeft, breeks,
Romans?
Moreover, without our
being aware of it t this
revolution has already
begun. We think of our
gelvet as faithfOlwor
ehipers of the ancients;
butvre have too much
sense to accept their
Standar : oSi with all the
conseqUences t in consid.b
orations of huaian beauty* i
Here, as oleeWhsre, we
how two baliefis and two'
reitgiono e With the ppo• i
icus4outo gtooth, derlAS t4e!
last' two thousand Sores
in the: number of ideas in
vi;culationthuman heads
have lost the faculty of
being logiCal*
THE HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
Women, in our society, (deny that love ' as we
will scarcely voice a ,experience it toady...
detailed opinion on beauty; its a modern affection.
otherwise a woman of wit at is one of the most
would be in a decidedlY ;curious and unexpected
perpleXing Situation. In ifruits of the advance
the museum she *Wow in civilization.
the statue of Meleager;
and if this Meloooor, which 4Modern love, that beau
sculptors understands4Y Itiful plant shining from
regard as a perfact - model kar t like the manchineel,
of male beaUty, should ivrith the glitter of its
walk into her salon with !enticing fruit, wilich so
the face he haT7Ed exactlyhtften conceal the deadli—
the mind indicated by that lest poisOn.4. 4
face, he would be clumsy,
and even ridicUlous.
The sentiments of well—
bred persons simply are
no longer the same as
among the Greeks••• r
Among the ancients, the
great passion, after their
ardor for the fatherland,
was a form of love it
would be ridiculous even
to name; among us, at
times the passion is love,
and in default of love
what we can find that most
resembles love. I rea—.
lize that our clever men,
even those who have a
soul, give many a moment
to ambition, either pub.
lie honors or the pleasuret
of vanity. I know too
that they have few intense
interests, and that rather
their lives go by in an
amused indifference. Then
the arts decline; but from
time to time public events
do away With indifference.
2n the tkidst of all this,
tt iS the tender passions
that direct taste... .
I do not believe that even
the most zealous enthusi—
ast for the ancients can
NOVEMBER 7 1958
(EditOris notelmanchineel—
a poisonous tropical tree,
having a milky juice and
apple—shaped fruit.)
Ott eiliKr tiabaltallsow
ißomantic ArtOrts Year
lbook 24
VW PICTURE IN LIBRARY
Our thanks to Professor
jAndrew Kafka, who recently
Idonated a picture of the
!Hundred Great Books to the
IHighacres Library* It is
;an interesting and welcome
laddition to our Campus*
!This picture is also a
!timely donation, for the
iHighacres Campus is again
(sponsoring an informal
!adult evening course on
;Great Literature, and
among the 5 books tenta-
Itively selected for this
+ year's course are two from
ithe 0 1 '00 Books list, •
BOSidars nPrtmeipies of
'Human Knowledge", and
iblentels "Divine Comedy".
t Mr. Robert Hutchins and a
I group of scholars from St.
!John's College in Maryland
selected tba 100 books as •a
tasis far their liberal Arts