...properly. I The Influence of Environment If a talent is to be speedily and happily developed, the great point is that a great deal of intellect and sound culture should be current in a nation. We admire the tragedies of the ancient Greeks; but, to take a correct view of the case, we ought rather...

...both Goethe and Byron, that " if a great talent is to be speedily and happily developed, the great point is that a great deal of intellect and sound culture should be current in a nation." 48 Indeed, he declared more than once what Matthew Arnold was to say later, that the greatness of Greek...

...properly. The Influence of Environment If a talent is to be speedily and happily developed, the great point is that a great deal of intellect and sound culture should be current in a nation. We admire the tragedies of the ancient Greeks; but, to take a correct view of the case, we ought rather...

...Influence of Environment] [May 3, 1827] ... If a talent is to be speedily and happily developed, the great point is that a great deal of intellect and sound culture should be current in a nation. We admire the tragedies of the ancient Greeks; but, to take a correct view of the case, we ought rather...

...the higher and more solid kinds of literature, perhaps still more unfavourable to art. Goethe said, " If a talent is to be speedily and happily developed...chiefly directed to business, that is, to railways, to finance, to commerce, to inventions, to manufactures (as well as to practical professions like law),...