On Beauty: Three Discourses Delivered in the University of Edinburgh:With an Exposition of the Doctrine of the Beautiful According to Plato

HEGEL said to a friend who was watching by his deathbed, "I have no one who can explain me to the world except yourself, and even you do not understand me." We are far from applying the left-handed compliment of the apostle of absolute idealism to Professor Blackie. But, touching the exposition of Platonism to this somewhat unsentimental generation, the ghost of the great Athenian idealist might appropriately address our author in the former part of the saying. Whether, in its contact with ...