insight into the universal content of art--the problems and
the aspirations of living men.

Even the briefest comment on these lectures must speak
of their very noble tone. Was it Lafcadio Hearn's intelli-
gence or his temperament that flooded this unique service of
his with a spirit of dignity, of largeness, of devotion to
ideals? We must think it was the whole man who was
speaking, an artist whose brain and heart were both great.
It is not the least of our debt to him that in his classroom he
illustrated day by day, before young men who might have
been critical of the civilisation he represented, the noblest
attitude which that civilisation has learned to take toward
the things of the mind.

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