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trary and capricious capacity for creating. 

 Its object is, rather, the cultivation of taste, 

 or judgment, of what in its highest form is 

 genius — that is to say, that marvellous faculty 

 whose characteristic it is to see, as if intuitive- 

 ly, and to produce, as if spontaneously, things 

 which subsequent analysis proves are perfectly 

 in accord with reason and truth. Literary 

 studies, if they are properly carried on, do not 

 in the least neglect the scientific side of knowl- 

 edge. But they incorporate science with the 

 imagination and the judgment to the extent 

 of transforming it, as it were, into sentiment 

 and intuition. 



From the considerations we have laid before 

 you, we conclude that human culture, when 

 properly carried on, ought to be at the same 

 time scientific and literary — in a word, uni- 

 versal. 



In reality, all things in nature cling to each 

 other. A thing isolated from other things, 

 is, because of that very fact, imperfectly and 

 inexactly understood. In order to see justly, 

 we must see everything in its relation to the 

 whole, and, to succeed in raising human nature 



