 More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced...  Matthew Arnold, how to Know Him - Page 148by Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1917 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead - 1892 - 204 pages
...amuse itself, but requires a constant means of distraction. It has been said that most of that which now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by Art. This in a sense is true, but it will occur to everyone that no great art was ever possible except... | |
 | 1892 - 348 pages
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to literature to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. We shall find . . . that the art... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...VOL. I. K called to higher destinies, than those which in general men nave assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to tonsole us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 pages
...destinies, than those which in general men / f nave assigned to it hitherto. ^More and more mankind will i discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.N Without poetry, our science \ will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with \ >us for... | |
 | Melville Best Anderson - 1896 - 94 pages
...than the most perfect speech of man, that in which he comes nearest to being able to utter the truth." "More and more mankind will discover that we have...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." 2. Tried by these high definitions and searching tests, what are we to think of Matthew Arnold's own... | |
 | Arthur Galton - 1897 - 140 pages
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry... | |
 | 1897 - 568 pages
...high uses and called to higher destinies than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. "Wordsworth finally and truly calls poetry 'the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.' Our religion,... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1897 - 140 pages
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry... | |
 | Lloyd Mifflin - 1897 - 222 pages
...is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. More and more mankind .will discover that we have...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Poetry will never lose currency with the world in spite of momentary appearances; it will never lose... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 308 pages
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.'1 Under such a conception as this, the test of poetic excellence can no longer be solely a talent... | |
| |
