...is beyond any doubt, as it is through them that we form our aesthetic view of life. -Pablo Picasso To try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressingforward, on any one side, with violence and self-will—it is only thus, it seems to me, that...

...does well to take to heart Matthew Arnold's significant passage on the search for truth. "To try to approach truth on one side after another; not to strive or cry, not to persist in pressing forward on one side with violence and self-will; it is only thus, it seems...

...so-called, is the view distorted by irrelevant considerations. It precludes flexibility of mind ; while " to try and approach truth on one side after another,...never see except in outline, but only thus even in outline3." Disinterestedness then is the first and greatest rule of criticism. But the critic cannot...

...words of his: "We are all seekers still;" not to imagine that we have heard or uttered the last word, " not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side with violence and self-will," but patiently to investigate, and sift, and interpret, until we find the Truth. "Prove all things;...

...they will always ' rush in where angels fear to tread.' " Matthew Arnold's attitude was rather •' to try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive nor cry, not to persist in pressing forward, on any side, with violence and self-will, it is only thus,...