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THE TEACHER’S MISSION
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Artists are the antennae of the race.’ If this statement is incomprehensible and if its corollaries need any explanation, let me put it that a nation’s writers are the voltometers and steam-gauges of that nation’s intellectual life.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.’ If this statement is incomprehensible and if its corollaries need any explanation, let me put it that a nation’s writers are the voltometers and steam-gauges of that nation’s intellectual life.
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On closer analysis I find that I mean something like ‘maximum efficiency of expression’; I mean that the writer has expressed something interesting in such a way that one cannot re-say it more effectively. I also mean something associated with discovery. The artist must have discovered something—either of life itself or of the means of expression.
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