...Rousseau has been thus classed, he was essentially a poet. The others, even Voltaire, were mere reasoners. with its belief. The human mind could never except...thought, is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals,...

...except by the intervention of-these excitements, have been awakened to the invention of tFe'grosser sciences and that application of analytical reasoning...thought, is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes. T^iere is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals,...

...Rousseau has been thus classed, he was essentially a poet. The others, even Yoltaire, were mere reasoners. wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice ;...thought, is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals,...

...Voltaire, were mero reasoners. ; : A DEFENCE OF POETRY. wisdom, than we know how to reduce into prac tice ; we have more scientific and economical knowledge than can be accommodated to the jusi distribution of the produce which it riiultiplies. The poetry in these systems of thought, is...

...classed, he was csei'iuUlly a poet. The other», even Vultaire, »ere mere rcaaoners. A DEFENCE OF POETRY. wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice ;...have more scientific and economical knowledge than con be accommodated to the just distribution of the produce which it multiplies. The poetry in these...

...yet made to the influence of Poetry — to the pursuit of the ideal. He says of the present age, " We have more moral, political, and historical wisdom than we know how to reduce into practice. The poetry in these systems of thought is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes....

...has yet made to the influence of Poetry—to the pursuit of the ideal. He says of the present age, " We have more moral, political, and historical wisdom than we know how to reduce into practice. The poetry in these systems of thought is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes....

...mere increase of scientific knowledge. The poet Shelley, in the beginning of this century, wrote : " We have more moral, political and historical wisdom...distribution of the produce which it multiplies." If this was so in Shelley's time, how is it now ? Steam was then but in its infancy; the rail way was...

...Chaucer, Shakespeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton, had ever existed ; if Raphael and Michael Angeloi had never been born ; if the Hebrew poetry had never...more scientific and economical knowledge than can be i This classification of Michael those in the note on the Bacchus Angelo should prevent any mis- at...

...of society, which it is now attempted to exalt over the direct expression of the inventive and ' v, creative faculty itself. We have more moral, political,...more scientific and economical knowledge than can be 1 This classification of Michael those in the note on the Bacchus accommodated to the just distribution...