...cultivated and the analyzing spirit remains without its natural complements and correctives. I had learned by experience that the passive susceptibilities needed...required to be nourished and enriched as well as guided. I never turned recreant to intellectual culture, or ceased to consider the power and practice of analysis...

...wanted in the poetry of Wordsworth. " I had now learned by experience " — this is his comment — " that the passive susceptibilities needed to be cultivated...required to be nourished and enriched as well as guided." Nor is it merely to the happiness and mental well-being of the individual that literature can minister....

...proper place among the prime necessities of human well-being to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to...the training of the human being for speculation and action. Following out this latter view, he took a vigorous course of poetry, especially of Wordsworth,...

...chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.' Further, he ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and, 'for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the...