Nineteenth-century Dutch Literature/ministers Formalism and Romanticism 1830-1880

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    Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
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    There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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    Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.
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    It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child’s interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.
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    You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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