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How do Huxley's sentences compare with those of Ruskin, or with those of any author recently studied? Are Huxley's sentences musical? How does an author make his sentences musical? C. Questions on words. Do you find evidence of exactness, a quality which Huxley said he labored for? Are the words general or specific in character? How does Huxley make his subject-matter attractive?
But along with a due proficiency in the use of the means of learning, a certain amount of knowledge, of intellectual discipline, and of artistic training should be conveyed in the elementary schools; and in this direction for reasons which I am afraid to repeat, having urged them so often I can conceive no subject-matter of education so appropriate and so important as the rudiments of physical science, with drawing, modelling, and singing.
And it is obviously easy, so far as subject-matter is concerned, to group his books in two divisions: on the one hand, The Temptation of St. Anthony, Salammbo, and two of the Trois Contes; on the other hand, Madame Bovary, L'Education Sentimentale, and the incomplete Bouvard and Pecuchet.
'What happiness is every man knows, because what pleasure is, every man knows, and what pain is, every man knows. But what justice is this is what on every occasion is the subject-matter of dispute. That phrase gives his view in a nutshell. Justice is the means, not the end. That is just which produces a maximum of happiness.
But instead of making an anthology, we have gone on the assumption that something more than accidental identity of subject-matter holds together the apparently desultory remarks of poets on the subject of the poet's eyebrows, his taste in liquors, his addiction to midnight rambles, and whatnot.
Had Metastasio not adopted great historical names had he borrowed his subject-matter more frequently from mythology, or from still more fanciful fictions had he made always the same happy choice as that in his Achilles in Scyros, where, from the nature of the story, the Heroic is interwoven with the Idyllic, we might then have pardoned him if he invariably depicts his personages as in love.
As he entered the adjutant's office he found Colonel Cleaves seated on the corner of his subordinate's desk, in low-toned conversation with his subordinate. "Am I intruding, sir?" Dick inquired, saluting the colonel. "No," said Colonel Cleaves. "In fact, Captain, you may as well know the subject-matter of our conversation. Captain Prescott, this camp would appear to be infested with German spies!
They talk with that straightforward and simple kind of innocency which makes strange and impressive the dialogue of Maeterlinck's earlier plays. Through it, as Mr. Yeats has said, he saw the subject-matter of his art "with wise, clear-seeing, unreflecting eyes and he preserved the innocence of good art in an age of reasons and purposes."
It is not merely the teacher, either, that will be emboldened to cast aside subject-matter. The pupil himself, under the influence of specific purposes, a clear notion of thoroughness, and his own conception of values, will quickly pass over many of the facts that are assigned in his lessons.
One must regard him, not as a great thinker, nor as a disinterested seeker after the truth, but as a master in the art of vigorous and picturesque expression. To startle, to wake up, to communicate to his reader a little wholesome shock, is his aim. Not the novelty and freshness of his subject-matter concerns him but the novelty and unhackneyed character of his literary style.
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