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Melancholy. ' ' Of insanity of any type that 

 leaves a mind capable in lucid intervals of 

 writing such verses as ' c DeRerum Natura ' ' 

 we know nothing. The sole value of the 

 myth is its causal association with the poem 

 of Tennyson. Only exsuccous dons who 

 have never known the wiles and ways of the 

 younger Aphrodite would take the intensity 

 of the feeling in Book IV as witness to any- 

 thing but an accident which may happen to 

 the wisest of the wise, when enthralled by 

 Vivien or some dark lady of the Sonnets ! 



In the School of Liters Humaniores the 

 studies are based on classical literature and 

 on history, ' c but a large number of students 

 approach philosophical study from other 

 sides. Students of such subjects as math- 

 ematics, natural science, history, psychol- 

 ogy, anthropology, or political economy 

 become naturally interested in philosophy, 

 and their needs are at present very imper- 

 fectly provided for in this university. ' ' This 



