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in life and nature. The savant, the scientist, the 

 moralist, the philosopher, may have pleasure in a 

 •work that gives little or no pleasure to the literary 

 artist. Criticism may be looked upon as a search 

 for these various values or various phases of truth, 

 which the critic expresses in terms of his own taste, 

 knowledge, insight, etc., for scientific values, philo- 

 sophical values, literary and poetic values, or moral 

 and religious values, acccording to the subject upon 

 which the critical mind is directed. No two men 

 look for exactly the same values, nor have the same 

 measure of appreciation of them. Emerson and 

 Lowell, for instance, make quite different demands 

 and form different estimates of the poets they read. 

 Lowell lays the emphasis upon the conventional 

 literary values, Emerson more upon spiritual and 

 religious values. An Englishman will find values 

 in the poets of his own country that a Frenchman 

 does not find, and a Frenchman, values in his poets 

 that an Englishman does not find. See how Sch^rer 

 and Taine handled Milton. Milton's great epic has 

 poetic and literary value, often of a high order, but 

 as philosophy or religion it is grotesque. 



Yet let me not seem to underrate the value of 

 what is called judicial criticism. Criticism as an act 

 of judgment, as a disinterested endeavor to see the 

 thing as it is in itself and as it stands related to other 

 things, is justly jealous of our personal tastes and 

 preferences. These tastes and preferences may blind 



