...scarce and cryptic pages is preserved the essence of humanism, •• that belief," as Pater said, " that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality, — no oracle beside which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual...

...between the true dark age and the later revival. And this idea in its turn leads to the deeper thought, that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality, and that among the spiritual forces of the past, the element of Greek culture, above all, is so fitted...

...fifteenth century with their names, he is a true humanist. For the essence of humanism is that one belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that...vitality — no language they have spoken, nor oracle by which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual human minds,...

...but we may content ourselves with a few. It might suffice to say in the words of a recent writer, ' nothing which has ever interested living men and women...lose its vitality — no language they have spoken, no oracle by which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual...

...but we may content ourselves with a few. It might suffice to say in the words of a recent writer, ' nothing which has ever interested living men and women...lose its vitality- — no language they have spoken, no oracle by which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual...

...but we may content ourselves with a few. It might suffice to say in the words of a recent writer, ' nothing which has ever interested living men and women...wholly lose its vitality — no language they have spokenj no oracle by which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained...

...of great Italians who fill the end of the fifteenth century with their names, he is a true humanist. For the essence of humanism is that belief of which...interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality—no language they have spoken, nor oracle beside which they have hushed their voices, no...

...suffered is of interest to him. " For the essence of humanism," it has been well said, "is the belief that nothing which has ever interested living men...vitality — no language they have spoken, nor oracle by which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual human minds,...

...sains (!) Diique Dexque doleat.' 4 Mr. Walter Pater is of opinion that 'the essence of humanism is that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality' ('Studies in the History of the Renaissance,' p. 38). ( Christiana seem actually to have feared lest...

...Chalk Drawing by Diirer [To/ace f. 76 I <. . . IV " %'" The essence of Humanism is the. belief . . . that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitalitY." — Walter Pater. T is with a certain sense of relief that we pass from the tragi-comedy of Maximilian's...