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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 38 (search)
et's art is valueless when he draws that peasant at a moment when the Angelus touches his quiet soul, and makes him for a moment a sentient part of the great anthem of the universe; or when in sowing the seed he becomes a symbol of the grandeur and glory of all creative and beneficent power? Great is the little; but why not go a step farther, and say, Greater is the great? An artist is commissioned to unlock for us all the mysteries of the human soul. Is Silas Lapham everything, and Arthur Dimmesdale nothing? The sincere observer of man, Mr. Howells says in Their wedding Journey, will not desire to look upon his heroic or occasional phases, but will seek him in his habitual moods of vacancy and tiresomeness. Tis simply illustrates Coleridge's remark that we may safely take every man's opinion of the value of that which he knows, but should distrust his opinion as to the worthlessness of that which he does not know. The point asserted is valuable; the point denied implies narr