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The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14,
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Title: The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
Author: Various
Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21273]
Language: English
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
VOL. II.--DECEMBER, 1858.--NO. XIV.
THE IDEAL TENDENCY.
We are all interested in Art; yet few of us have taken pains to justify the delight we feel in it. No philosophy can win us away from Shakspeare, Plato, Angelo, Beethoven, Goethe, Phidias,--from the masters of sculpture, painting, music, and metaphor. Their truth is larger than any other,--too large to be stated directly and lodged in systems, theories, definitions, or formulas. They suggest and assure to us what cannot be spoken. They communicate life, because they do not endeavor to measure life. Philosophy will present the definite; Art refers always to the vast,--to