...words of his: "We are all seekers still;" not to imagine that we have heard or uttered the last word, " not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side with violence and self-will," but patiently to investigate, and sift, and interpret, until we find the Truth. "Prove all things;...

...rather say, not in my power,— to dispute on behalf of any opinion, even my own, very obstinately. To try and approach Truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, not to persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violence and self-will,—it is only thus,...

...in tone beautiful, but in logic indiscriminating ; and leading, at last, to nowhere in particular. " To try and approach truth on one side after another — not to strive or cry, not to persist in pressing forward on any one side with violence or self-will — it is not only thus...

...in tone beautiful, but in logic indiscriminating ; and leading, at last, to nowhere in particular. " To try and approach truth on one side after another — not to strive or cry, not to persist in pressing forward on any one side with violence or self-will — it is not only thus...

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...rather say, not in my power, — to dispute on behalf of any opinion, even my own, very obstinately. To try and approach truth on one side after another,...it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in...

...worth in the critic's work, of a perfect and disinterested love of truth — the aim, as he says, " to try and approach truth on one side after another,...persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violenco or self-will — it is only thus, it seems to me, that mortals may hopo to gain any vision...

...rather say, not in my power, — to dispute on behalf of any opinion, even my own, very obstinately. To try and approach truth on one side after another,...it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in...

...characteristic essence. But it is part of Matthew Arnold's method, if method it may be called, " to approach truth on one side after another, not to strive...forward, on any one side, with violence and self-will." One of his best-known essays, that on Heine, is an admirable instance of what can and cannot be obtained...

...characteristic essence. But it is part of Matthew Arnold's method, if method it may be called, " to approach truth on one side after another, not to strive...forward, on any one side, with violence and self-will." One of his best-known essays, that on Heine, is an admirable instance of what can and cannot be obtained...