classicalism

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We want to create a sustained counter effort to the perpetual tendency of all educational organisations towards classicalism, secondary issues, and the evasion of life.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

He is also wholly free from Italianizing tendencies: his classicalism even is that of an English student,—of a schoolboy, indeed, if he be compared with a Jonson or a Milton.

From A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick by Palgrave, Francis Turner

There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter