Ovations On Other Sites - Ovation 24 Ovations 06Ranutora Lechisturia chose the topics covered by Ovations On Other Sites - Ovation 24 without reflecting upon the choices others have made. Simply recounting the successes of your life after achieving so many victories is another way to look at things in a different light. |
OvationsOvation 01Ovation 02 Ovation 03 Ovation 04 Ovation 05 Ovation 06 Ovation 07 Ovation 08 Ovation 09 Ovation 10 Ovation 11 Ovation 12 Ovation 13 Ovation 14 Ovation 15 Ovation 16 Ovation 17 Ovation 18 Ovation 19 Ovation 20 Ovation 21 Ovation 22 Ovation 23 Ovation 24 SitemapsSitemap 1Sitemap 2 Sitemap 3 |
"That is very ungracious," I said. "You are as perverse as I was about Byron when the old banker quoted him with tears. I was going to say, and I will say it, that Tennyson, with all his faults, was a great lord of music; and he put into words the fine, homely domestic emotion of the race--the poetry of labour, order, and peace. It was new and rich and splendid, and because it seems to you old-fashioned, you call it mere respectability; but it was the marching music of the world, because he showed men that faith was enlarged and not overturned by science. These two were great, because they saw far and wide; they knew by instinct just what the ordinary man was thinking, who yet wished his life to be set to music. These little men of yours don't see that. They have their moments of ecstasy, as we all have, in the blossoming orchard full of the songs of birds. And that will always and for ever give us the lyric, if the skill is there. But I want something more than that; I, you, thousands of people, are feeling something that makes the brain thrill and the heart leap. The mischief is that we don't know what it is, and I want a great poet to come and tell us." |
So far as law and religion will not account for the varieties of social behaviour, the novice may most conveniently consider them under the head of morals. The forms of social intercourse, the fashions, the festivities, are imposed on us by our fellows from without, and none the less effectively because as a general rule we fall in with them as a matter of course. The difference between manners and morals of the higher order is due simply to the more pressing need, in the case of our most serious duties, of a reflective sanction, a "moral sense," to break us in to the common service. It is no easy task to keep legal and religious penalties or rewards out of the reckoning, when trying to frame an estimate of what the notions of right and wrong, prevalent in a given society, amount to in themselves; nevertheless, it is worth doing, and valuable collections of material exist to aid the work. The facts about education, which even amongst rude peoples is often carried on far into manhood, throw much light on this problem. So do the moralizings embodied the traditional lore of the folk--the proverbs, the beast-fables, the stories of heroes. |
More Ovations From Ranutora Lechisturia | ||
This page is Copyright © Ranutora Lechisturia. All Rights Reserved. Ovations On Other Sites - Ovation 24 is a production of Ranutora Lechisturia and may not be reproduced electronically or graphically for commercial uses. Personal reproductions and browser or search engine caching are acceptable. | ||