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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 38 (search)
the obscure can have any value. I knew a botanist who discovered two undescribed and almost invisible species of plants on Cambridge Common, Massachusetts. It was a boon to science, no doubt; but would it have been a boon if he had induced all cultivators to annihilate their greenhouses, root lip their orchids, and spend the rest of their lives poring with spectacles among the scant grasses of that not very luxuriant enclosure where he found his fame? The novel of pure character, says Mr. Gosse, in the Pall Mall Gazette, is the novel of the future. The after-ages will wonder that we preferred our assassins and our bigamists to the Lady of the Aroostook, just as we ourselves wonder that an age which had Colonel Newcome and Becky Sharp before its eyes could waste its time on the false, crude, high-flown romanticism of the first Lord Lytton and his idealistic waxworks. There is always something very impressive in the way these young poets deal with after-ages; and it might be poi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
ller, Margaret. See Ossoli. Furies, the, 44. G. Galahad, Sir, 296. Gallenga, A., 98. Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 309. Garrison, W. L., 18, 177. Garth, Caleb, 294. Gellius, Aulus, quoted, 97. Genlis, Madame de, 57, 179. German schools, drawbacks of, 246. Gerikiman standard, the, 243. Germany, influence of, 23, 134. Gibbon, Edward, 290. Gisborne, Thomas, 4. Gladstone, W. E., 136. Godwin, M. W., 232. Godwin, William, 178. Goethe, J. W. von, quoted, 36, 179, 291. Gosse, E. H., quoted, 193. Gough, J. B., 309. Gower, Lord, Ronald, 138. graces, the S11Y, 306. Grant and Ward, 191. Grant, General U. S., 20, 127, 303. Griswold, R. W., 289. Gymnastics, elevation of, 64. H. Hair, the uses of, 2. Hale, E. E., 206. Hale, H. E., his theory of language. 181. Hale, Lucretia, 40. Harem, Shadow of the, 12. Harland, Marion, 13. Harte, Bret, 132, 153, 224. Harvard University, 88, 275, 287. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, quoted, 105. Hayley, William, 1