78 ON SOME PRINCIPLES OF CRITICISM 



of humanity. No single wise man decides any question. A 

 consensus of wise men is needed to establish taste. He must 

 not suffer himself to be diverted by partialities and predilec- 

 tions into side-currents. His duty is to abide by commanding 

 principles, and, living in the whole, to appreciate the correla- 

 tion of the subject he has chosen with the complex of man's 

 intellectual and moral nature. 



