![]() Christianity too has its heroes, and in the supernatural order, and we call them Saints. The heroes, of whom history tells, Alexander, or Caesar, or Scipio, or Saladin, are the representatives of that magnanimity or self-mastery which is the greatness of human nature. ![]() There is an ideal perfection in these various subject-matters, towards which individual instances are seen to rise, and which are standards for all instances whatever The Greek divinities, and demigods, as the statuary has molded them, with their symmetry of figure, and their high forehead and their regular features, are the perfection of physical beauty. There is a physical beauty and a moral: there is a beauty of person, there is a beauty of our moral being, which is natural virtue and in like manner there is a beauty, there is a perfection of the intellect. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.||| The Idea of a University: Knowledge As Its Own End ![]()
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