"Ethics and the new education," . the same time to bringhumiliation upon his native state by its reduction tothe condition of mere vassalage to a foreign power;just as on his part the King of Naples, for no otherpurpose than to extend his own authority, partici-pates in the ignoble plot of Antonio. Thus these latter see nothing but the Realty ofthe present moment and greedily grasp at that, whollyregardless of the shadowy world of the Ideal. Andso these two worlds drift asunder. Prospero is setafloat upon the frail craft of his own learning andspeculation. Only, he bears with him his choicestb
"Ethics and the new education," . the same time to bringhumiliation upon his native state by its reduction tothe condition of mere vassalage to a foreign power;just as on his part the King of Naples, for no otherpurpose than to extend his own authority, partici-pates in the ignoble plot of Antonio. Thus these latter see nothing but the Realty ofthe present moment and greedily grasp at that, whollyregardless of the shadowy world of the Ideal. Andso these two worlds drift asunder. Prospero is setafloat upon the frail craft of his own learning andspeculation. Only, he bears with him his choicestbooks and his infant daughter, Miranda. And now,indeed, it seems that as between the eternal powersand the visions of this dreamer there is truest unison. There they hoist us,To cry to the sea that roared to us ; to sighTo the winds, whose pity, sighing back again,Did us but loving wrong. And upon this mystic voyage Miranda, wonder-ful daughter indeed of this most wonder-workingDuke, did smile, infused with_a_igrtitude ETHICS AND THE NEIV EDUCA TION^ Could such vo3age end elsewhere than upon theshores of the Enchanted Island? There alone couldthe magic powers of Prospero find free field of exer-cise. There alone could his prophetic visions assumeunhindered their most perfect forms. It is there thatProspero finds Caliban, the living embodiment of thegrosser brute forces of Nature, and reduces him tosomething approaching at least automatic service,friction-grumbling though it be, at the bidding ofhuman will. There, too, he discovers Ariel, the spirit of thesubtlest phases of the worlds space-filling energy,and through whose m3sterious electric enginer}- hefills the sky with tempest or with sunshine at his is the Enchanted Island the proper home of thesplendid revelry- of Idealism in its separation fromthe sterner aspects of the world of Realty! But meanwhile how fares it with the world of ex-clusive Realism ? Having thrust out the Ideal fromtheir midst and
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