Mill on Bentham and Coleridge
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MILL ON BENTHAM AND COLERIDGE By the same Author THE COMMON PURSUIT REVALUATION NEW BEARINGS IN ENGLISH POETRY EDUCATION ANB THE UNIVERSITY THE GREAT TRADITION With Denys Thompson CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT Edited by the same Author DETERMINATION MILL ON BENTHAM AND COLERIDGE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY F. R. Leavis CONTENTS Introduction page Mill on Bentliam Mill on Coleridge INTRODUCTION This present volume represents an ambition to make Mills Bentham and Coleridge current classics for the literary student. But there was more to the actual operative purpose that moved me than this suggests, and for the literary student doesnt, without some explaining, really convey my intention. And in the explaining I have to avow that, essentially, I have been concerned to take a propagandist opportunity. I have been concerned to do something more by way of promoting that particular approach to the problem of liberal education which I outlined in Education and the University. I contend there that while, on the one hand, if the study of literature is to play its central part it must be informed and governed by a more athletic conception of criticism as a discipline of intelligence than it commonly is, on the other a serious study of literature inevitably leads outwards into other studies and disciplines, into fields not primarily literary, and that the problem of liberal education at the university level, particular discipline being duly provided for, is to exploit this outwardleading to the best advantage. A liberal education cannot confine itself to the critical study of literature, and the profit of a real literary training will show itself very largely in otherthan literary fields. It is with the meaAs of cultivating and relating these fields that a serious attempt to grapple with the problem must be very largely preoccupied. This insistence on extraliterary studies may seem superfluous, the need being recognized in time honoured and universal academic practice. My point is that my
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