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They are not the best subjects for critical scholar- ship ; criticism demands greater remoteness, greater foreignness of nature. Moreover, critical study is not the surest method of securing the full measure of spiritual light, though it yields abundant gain in the refinement of the intellectual nature, and in the quickening of the perceptive faculties. I am argu- ing for the free, generous use of these authors in 28 LITERATURE IN SCHOOL. the principal years of school life. It is then that thei...r power is most profoundly needed and will be most strongly felt. We need to put our children in their impressionable years into instant and close connection with the highest manifestation of our national life. Away with the bottle and the tube ! Give them a lusty draught at the mother's full breast ! It may be objected that this is too restricted a view to take of literature in our common schools. Why not, some may say, give them the best we have, irrespective of time? are there not writers to-day, whose Americanism is just as fervid and who stand a little closer to the ear by reason of their youth and promise ?
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