Some account of the origin and objects of the new Oxford examinations for the title of Associate in Arts and certificates, for the year 1858 / by T.D. Acland ; also letters from J. Hullah [and others] and selected papers relating to the West of England examination.

  • Acland, Sir Thomas Dyke, 1809-1898.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Some account of the origin and objects of the new Oxford examinations for the title of Associate in Arts and certificates, for the year 1858 / by T.D. Acland ; also letters from J. Hullah [and others] and selected papers relating to the West of England examination. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    anything else. What can bo more annoying than to hear (as you constantly hear) this admired as “ correct,” and that condemned as “incorrect?” This is the pedantry which called Shakspeare an irregular genius, and would have excluded him from the list of great dramatists, because, forsooth, he did not keep the unities. You want to teach young artists that there are principles in their art. Teach them also that the principles cannot be expressed in words, and that until they have learnt to use the words as indicating something more and something deeper than they say, the piinciples have not been mastered at all. Can you get them far enough by 17 to secure that they shall feel this? I do not believe it. This is my reason (and the more you think of it the more j'oxi will approve it) for being unwilling that the science of music, and still more that of drawing, should be used as the instrument for teaching young minds to think. • ••••••• I am ruthlessly spoiling yoxir holiday. Good bj’e till the IGth. Is not Iluskin’s letter beautiful ? Yours ever, T. D. AclanJ, Esq. F. TE.MPr.K. [The following are the principal parts of Mr. Ruskin’s letter referred to by Mr. Temple. It was written in reply to a clear statement of certain points in debate between Mr. Temple and me, drawn up by Mr. Temple, but not in a form suitable for publication, and some references to it are therefore omitted.] Extracts from a Letter of John Ruskin, Esq., to Rev. F. Temple. My dear Sir, Penrith, Sept. 25, 1857. I have just received your most interesting letter, and will try to answer as shortly as I can, saying nothmg of what I feel, and what you must well know I should feel, respecting the diffi- culty of the questions and their importance; except only this, that I should not have had the boldness to answer your letter by return of post, unless, in consequence of conversations on this subject with Mr. Acland and Dr. Acland two months ago, I had been lately thinking of it more than of any other. Your questions fall under two heads: (1.) The range which an