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Excerpt from Select Poems: Being the Literature Prescribed for the Junior Matriculation and Junior Leaving Examinations, 1905 The Scientific temper of our time. - The temper of our time is essentially scientific. The discoveries of a host of investigators have not only passed into the popular mind, but changed its whole attitude. Where our fathers believed, we ask for cause or reason; for what they took on trust, we demand the why and the wherefore. There is nothing, we feel, which does not admit of explanation if investigation could only come at it. Exceptions may be pointed out which contradict accepted theories. Such cases necessitate the correction but not the abandonment of our idea of law. As Professor Caird has said: "Under the acknowledged reign of law the world is a connected drama, in which there is no place for episodes." To the men of science we owe a debt of gratitude for their contributions to greater clearness and sanity, for the suppression of many superstitions which impeded the progress of our predecessors, and for re-calling men from the pursuit of metaphysical Will-o'-the-wisps and theological Jack-o'-lanterns to the firm and certain path of experience. The apparent opposition of Science and Poetry. - A lingering superstition which science, it would seem, is destined to extirpate, is the love of poetry. In his Essay on Milton, Macaulay says: "We think that as civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines... In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. They may be better able to analyze human nature than their predecessors. But analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect. In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence, much science, much philosophy, abundance of wit and eloquence, abundance of verses, and even of good ones - but little poetry." A more recent writer - Max Nordau - in his book entitled Degeneration, speaks thus contemptuously of the prospect of art: "As to the future of art and literature, with which these inquiries are chiefly concerned, that can be predicted with tolerable clearness. I resist the temptation of looking into too remote a future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Pełny tytuł: Select Poems
• Podtytuł: Being the Literature Prescribed for the Junior Matriculation and Junior Leaving Examinations, 1905 (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: John Marshall
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 288
• EAN: 9781331017097
• ISBN: 9781331017097
• ID: 09711075
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 386 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Data wydania: 09. July 2015

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