...culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face...that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but "A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them...

...speculative culture, towards the human spirit is to rouse, to startle it into sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face;...intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us,—for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted...

...culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face...hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood oi: passion or insight 5 or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, —...

...visible world as fair as the descant written in its honour in the book that lies open on his knees: Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face;...of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them...

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...Walter Pater had a similar power, and he put this idea into words of incomparable illumination : " Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face...real and attractive to us — for that moment only." The ability to divine the meaning of experience in this way belongs to Kipling. Those moments pass...

...culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face;...intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us, — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A...

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...speculative culture, towards the human spirit is to rouse, to startle it into sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face;...intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A...

...maintenance of its exquisite fervor. " Every moment has some form perfect in hand or face ; some love choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistably real and attractive to us, — for that moment only ". Life is a sequence of moments,...