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Show Two Casts of Mind. There are two casts of mind and two classes of writers which stand out In more or less marked contrast to ench other at all times. We name tliem "ceux qui agltent le monde, et ceux qui le clvlllsent," classical and romantic, the men of clearness and calm and the men of magic and enthu-Blasni, enthu-Blasni, the walkers In the broad streets of life whero the fine palaces and fair prospects are, and the walkers in the, by-streets where squalor and eccentricity eccen-tricity hug their independence. The one sort finds everything Interesting, Inter-esting, even the ugly, and sometimes especlnily the ugly ; the other averts its eyes, as far as it may, from disease and disorder, and ugliness and irrationality. irra-tionality. That Is what Goethe meant when, with some Injustice to himself as well as to other people, he declared that the classical was the healthy and tha romnutlc the diseased. |