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The Englishman has been called a political animal, and he values what is political and practical so much that ideas easily becom
The Englishman has been called a political animal, and he values what is political and practical so much that ideas easily becom
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The Englishman has been called a political animal, and he values what is political and practical so much that ideas easily become objects of dislike in his eyes, and thinkers, miscreants, because practice is everything, a free play of the mind is nothing.【T1】
The notion of the free play of the mind upon all subjects being a pleasure in itself, being an object of desire, being an essential provider of elements without which a nation’s spirit, whatever compensations it may have for them, must in the long run, die of emptiness, hardly enters into an Englishman’s thoughts.
It is noticeable that the word curiosity, which in other languages is used in a good sense, to mean, as a high and fine quality of man’s nature, just this disinterested love of a free play of the mind on all subjects, for its own sake — it is noticeable, I say, that this word has in our language no sense of the kind, no sense but a rather bad and disparaging one. But criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality.【T2】
It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind; and to value knowledge and thought as thev approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever.
This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little original sympathy in the practical English nature, and what there was of it has undergone a long benumbing period of blight and suppression in the epoch of Romanticism.【T3】
It is of the last importance that English criticism should clearly discern what rule for its course, in order to avail itself of the field now opening to it. and to produce fruit for the future, it ought to take, which may be summed up in one word-disinterestedness.
And how is criticism to show disinterestedness? By keeping aloof from what is called "the practical view of things"; by resolutely following; the law of its own nature, which is to be a free play of the mind on all subjects which it touches. By steadily refusing to lend itself to any of those concealed, political, practical considerations about ideas, which plenty of people will be sure to attach to them, but which criticism has really nothing to do with. Its business is, as I have said, simply to know the best that is known and thought in the world, and by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas. Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability; but its business is to do no more.
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最关键的是,英国的批评界若想利用向它敞开的领域,若想在将来有所收获,就应该清楚地认识到应为自己的发展道路选择什么样的规则。这种规则可以概括为一个词——客观。
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