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40 THIRD PERIOD. I. PRIDE OF SCIENCE.
aside for the time, as completely as may be. The thoughtful
man is gone far away to seek; but the perceiving man must
sit still, and open his heart to receive. The thoughtful man is
knitting and sharpening himself into a two-edged sword, wherewith to pierce. The perceiving man is stretching himself into
a four-cornered sheet wherewith to catch. And all the breadth
to which he can expand himself, and all the white emptiness
into which he can blanch himself, will not be enough to receive
what God has to give him.
§ xiii. What, then, it will be indignantly asked, is an
utterly ignorant and unthinking man likely to make the best
artist ? No, not so neither. Knowledge is good for him so
long as he can keep it utterly, servilely, subordinate to his own
divine work, and trample it under his feet, and out of his way,
the moment it is likely to entangle him.
And in this respect, observe, there is an enormous difference between knowledge and education. An artist need not
be a learned man, in all probability it will be a disadvantage
to him to become so; but he ought, if possible, always to be
an educated man: that is, one who has understanding of his
own uses and duties in the world, and therefore of the general
nature of the things done and existing in the world; and who^
has so trained himself, or been trained, as to turn to the best
and most courteous account whatever faculties or knowledge
he has. The mind of an educated man is greater than the
knowledge it possesses; it is like the vault of heaven, encompassing the earth which lives and flourishes beneath it: but the
mind of an educated and learned man is like a caoutchouc band,
with an everlasting spirit of contraction in it, fastening together papers which it cannot open, and keeps others from
opening.
Half our artists are ruined for want of education, and by
the possession of knowledge; the best that I have known have
been educated, and illiterate. The ideal of an artist, however,
is not that he should be illiterate, but well read in the best
books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and in bearing.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 3 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000054 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 40 THIRD PERIOD. I. PRIDE OF SCIENCE. aside for the time, as completely as may be. The thoughtful man is gone far away to seek; but the perceiving man must sit still, and open his heart to receive. The thoughtful man is knitting and sharpening himself into a two-edged sword, wherewith to pierce. The perceiving man is stretching himself into a four-cornered sheet wherewith to catch. And all the breadth to which he can expand himself, and all the white emptiness into which he can blanch himself, will not be enough to receive what God has to give him. § xiii. What, then, it will be indignantly asked, is an utterly ignorant and unthinking man likely to make the best artist ? No, not so neither. Knowledge is good for him so long as he can keep it utterly, servilely, subordinate to his own divine work, and trample it under his feet, and out of his way, the moment it is likely to entangle him. And in this respect, observe, there is an enormous difference between knowledge and education. An artist need not be a learned man, in all probability it will be a disadvantage to him to become so; but he ought, if possible, always to be an educated man: that is, one who has understanding of his own uses and duties in the world, and therefore of the general nature of the things done and existing in the world; and who^ has so trained himself, or been trained, as to turn to the best and most courteous account whatever faculties or knowledge he has. The mind of an educated man is greater than the knowledge it possesses; it is like the vault of heaven, encompassing the earth which lives and flourishes beneath it: but the mind of an educated and learned man is like a caoutchouc band, with an everlasting spirit of contraction in it, fastening together papers which it cannot open, and keeps others from opening. Half our artists are ruined for want of education, and by the possession of knowledge; the best that I have known have been educated, and illiterate. The ideal of an artist, however, is not that he should be illiterate, but well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and in bearing. |
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