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[120] “His whole soul is perfected and ennobled by the acquirement of justice and temperance and wisdom. ... And in the first place, he will honor studies which impress these qualities on his soul and will disregard others.”—Republic, IX, 591, Dialogues, III, 305.
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[121] See The Function of Criticism, Selections, p. 52.[Transcriber’s note: This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 61 in this e-text.]
[122] Delivered October 1, 1880, and printed in Science and Culture and Other Essays, Macmillan & Co., 1881.
[123] See The Function of Criticism, Selections, pp. 52-53. [Transcriber’s note: This approximates to the section following the text reference for Footnote 61 in this e-text.]
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[124] See L’Instruction superieur en France in Renan’s Questions Contemporaines, Paris, 1868.
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[125] Friedrich August Wolf (1759-1824), German philologist and critic.
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[126] See Plato’s Symposium, Dialogues, II, 52-63.
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[127] James Joseph Sylvester (1814-97), English mathematician. In 1883, the year of Arnold’s lecture, he resigned a position as teacher in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, to accept the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford.
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[128] Darwin’s famous proposition. Descent of Man, Part III, chap. XXI, ed. 1888, II, 424.
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[129] Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English chemist and physicist, and the discoverer of the induction of electrical currents. He belonged to the very small Christian sect called after Robert Sandeman, and his opinion with respect to the relation between his science and his religion is expressed in a lecture on mental education printed at the end of his Researches in Chemistry and Physics.
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[130] Eccles. VIII, 17.[Arnold.]
[131] Iliad, XXIV, 49.[Arnold.]
[132] Luke IX, 25.
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[133] Macbeth, V, iii.
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[134] A touching account of the devotion of Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) to her studies is to be found in Ascham’s Scholemaster, Arber’s ed., 46-47.
HEINRICH HEINE.
