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As it happens, Kitchener was extraordinarily English in this lively and vital moderation. And it is to be feared that the more German idealisation of him, in the largely unenlightened England before the war, has already done some harm to his reputation, and in missing what was particularly English has missed what was particularly interesting.
Yet it may be shown that music is but an idealisation of the natural language of emotion; and that consequently, music must be good or bad according as it conforms to the laws of this natural language. The various inflections of voice which accompany feelings of different kinds and intensities, are the germs out of which music is developed.
I mentioned this fancy of mine to Dodd, but he declared that one would have had to do violence to his imagination to make "victorious heroes" out of us on that occasion, and suggested "heroic victims" as equally poetical and more in accordance with the facts. His severely practical mind objected to any such fanciful idealisation of our misery.
Now, I submit it is not only a legitimate form of approach, but altogether the most promising and hopeful form of approach, to endeavour to disentangle and express one's personal version of that idea, and to measure realities from the stand-point of that idealisation. I think, in fact, that the creation of Utopias and their exhaustive criticism is the proper and distinctive method of sociology.
There was, in the Homeric hymns and in the lyric poets, a delight in details of incident and in personal peculiarities and even in romantic tales about the gods; and in the fourth century, when the high idealisation of the preceding age is no longer so strong in its influence, we find a similar tendency in art as well.
The picture, which was nothing but an idealisation of the vignette upon the title-page of my father's book the vignette taken from the photograph of Winnie, my brother Frank, and one of my fisher-boy playmates brought back upon me all! Sinfi came to me. 'What is it, brother? said she. 'Sinfi, I cried, 'what was that saying of your mother's about fathers and children?
Emmy's vehemence had thus the temporary effect of creating a fresh reality out of a common idealisation of circumstance.
Pioneering is picturesque enough in fiction. In fact, it permits of no leisure and no idealisation; and without those things Mr. Rawlence paused with outstretched hands, shrugging shoulders, and the smile of one who should say 'You understand, of course. My modest contribution was in three words, delivered with emphatic gestures of acquiescence 'That's just it. 'Exactly, resumed the artist.
I am simply stating the facts; it is really no business of mine. After all, saintliness is never a reality; it is always more or less an idealisation of the image by the mirror. If there is saintliness anywhere, it is in the mirror, in the people who believe in the saints. I myself do not believe in them. But let us come to serious matters.
With all abatements, I suppose, this is what most marriages take themselves to be; but it would mean in her case, I think, more than in that of most women, for her love was an absolute idealisation. She believed her husband to be a hero of rose-coloured romance, and he turns out to be not even a hero of very sad-coloured reality.
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