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for we need now no longer pretend, like our forefathers, to have any great regard for Greece and Rome, which, besides, sit enthroned in almost inaccessible loneliness and majestic alienation. FOR WE NEED NOW NO LONGER PRETEND LIKE OUR FOREFATHERS TO HAVE ANY GREAT REGARD FOR GREECE AND ROME WHICH BESIDES SIT ENTHRONED IN ALMOST INACCESSIBLE LONELINESS AND MAJESTIC ALIENATION
owledged without shame: in none at all. Of artistic thinking, learning, striving, and comparison, we do not find in them a single trace; and no one would seriously think that the voice of the universities would ever be raised to help the advancement of the higher national schemes of art. Whether an individual teacher feels himself to be personally qualified for art, or whether a professorial chair has been established for the training of æstheticising literary historians, does not enter into the question at all: the fact remains that the university is not in a position to control the young academician by severe artistic discipline, and that it must let happen what happens, willy-nilly--and this is the cutting answer to the immodest pretensions of the universities to represent themselves as the highest educational institutions. "We find our academical 'independents' growing up without philosophy and without art; and how can they then have any need to 'go in for' the Greeks and Romans?-- D TO ART CANNOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED WITHOUT SHAME IN NONE AT ALL OF ARTISTIC THINKING LEARNING STRIVING AND COMPARISON WE DO NOT FIND IN THEM A SINGLE TRACE AND NO ONE WOULD SERIOUSLY THINK THAT THE VOICE OF THE UNIVERSITIES WOULD EVER BE RAISED TO HELP THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE HIGHER NATIONAL SCHEMES OF ART WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL TEACHER FEELS HIMSELF TO BE PERSONALLY QUALIFIED FOR ART OR WHETHER A PROFESSIONAL CHAIR HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR THE TRAINING OF AESTHETICISING LITERARY HISTORIANS DOES NOT ENTER INTO THE QUESTION AT ALL THE FACT REMAINS THAT THE UNIVERSITY IS NOT IN A POSITION TO CONTROL THE YOUNG ACADEMICIAN BY SEVERE ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE AND THAT IT MUST LET HAPPEN WHAT HAPPENS WILLY NILLY AND THIS IS THE CUTTING ANSWER TO THE IMMODEST PRETENSIONS OF THE UNIVERSITIES TO REPRESENT THEMSELVES AS THE HIGHEST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WE FIND OUR ACADEMICAL INDEPENDENCE GROWING UP WITHOUT PHILOSOPHY AND WITHOUT ART AND HOW CAN THEY THEN HAVE ANY NEED TO GO IN FOR THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
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