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...would, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act that which we...of life : our calculations have outrun conception ; wo have eaten more than we can digest. The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the...

...than what men now practise and endure. We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine ; we want the poetry of life." The sceptic in the great gospel of human progression, has adduced this inequality of our growth in...

...than what men now practise and endure. We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine ; we want the poetry of life." The sceptic in the great gospel of human progression, has adduced this inequality of our growth in...

...would, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty to imaginethat which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine.; we want the 15 poetry of life.: our calculations have outrun conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest....

...accommodated to the just distribution of the produce it multiplies. The cultivation of those sciences that have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world arid enabled man to enslave the elements has left man himself a slave : instead of lightening it has...

...imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine ; we want the 15 poetry of life : our calculations have outrun conception...the external world, has, for want of the poetical fac.- 20 ulty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world ; and man, having enslaved...

...ivould, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the 13 poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest....

...manner as exercise strengthens a limb. . . . We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we...conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest. . . . Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. Of the four books before us,...

...propositions. Among them occurs the thesis that "We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know" : "our calculations have outrun conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest," with the result that our mechanical discoveries have rather increased than lessened misery — Buckle's...