LEARNING
AND
OTHER ESSAYS
LEARNING
AND
OTHER ESSAYS
BY
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN
NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1910
Copyright, 1910
By John Jay Chapman
Electrotyped by
The Maple Press
York, Pa.
CONTENTS
| PAGES | |
|---|---|
| Learning | 1 |
| Professorial Ethics | 39 |
| The Drama | 53 |
| Norway | 83 |
| Doctor Howe | 89 |
| Jesters | 149 |
| The Comic | 155 |
| The Unity of Human Nature | 175 |
| The Doctrine of Non-resistance | 193 |
| Climate | 207 |
| The Influence of Schools | 213 |
| The Æsthetic | 235 |
LEARNING.
An expert on Greek Art chanced to describe in my hearing one of theengraved gems in the Metropolitan Museum. He spoke of it as ‘certainlyone of the great gems of the world,’ and there was something in histone that was even more thrilling than his words. He might have beendescribing the Parthenon or Beethoven’s Mass,—such was the passion ofreverence that flowed out of him as he spoke. I went to see the gemafterwards. It was badly placed, and for all artistic purposes wasinvisible. I suppose that even if I had had a good look at it, I shouldnot have been able to appreciate its full merit. Who could?—save thehandful of adepts in the world, the little group of gem-readers, bywhom the mighty music of this tiny score could be read at sight.
Nevertheless it was a satisfaction to me to have seen the stone. I knewthat through its surface there poured the power of the Greek world;that not without Phidias and Aristotle, and not without the Parthenon,could it have com