Volume 183302

England and the English / by Edward Lytton Bulwer.

  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Date:
1833
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    often subserviency to individual Taste—Domestic Habits in- fluence Art—Small Houses—The Nobleman and his two Pic- tures—Jobbing—What is the Patronage of a State? That which operates in elevating the People, and so encouraging Genius—The Qualities that obtain Honours are the Barometers of the respect in which Intellect, Virtue, Wealth, or Birth are “held—The Remark of Helvetius—Story of a Man of Expecta- tions—Deductions of the chapter summed up ; 173 : CHAPTER VIII. THE STATE OF SCIENCE. The Public only reward in Science that which is addressed to their wants—The higher Science cannot, therefore, be left to their encouragement—Examples of one man accomplishing the Invention of another, often through want of mechanical means in the Invéntor—If the Public cannot reward the higher Sci-” ences, the State should--How encouraged here-—-Comparison between the Continent and England in this respect—Three classes of Scientific Men : the first nothing can discourage ; the last the Public reward ; the intermediate class disheartened by indifference—Aristocratic influence deleterious by means of the Royal Society—-Number of lesser Societies on branches of know- ledge—The Nature of Ambition—Its Motives and Objects com- mon to Philosophers as to other Men é ’ 184 CHAPTER IX. THE STATE OF THE ARTS. Late rise of the Art of Painting in England—-Commencement of Royal Academy—lIts infidelity to its objects—In two respects, however, it has been serviceable—Pictorial art higher in this country, and more generally cultivated, than in any other—But there is an absence of sentiment in our Painters—The influence of the Material extends from Philosophy to Art—True cause of the inspiring effect of Religion upon Art—Sculpture—Chantrey —Gibson.— Historical painting—Haydon, &c.—Martin—His wonderful genius—New source of religious inspiration from
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