CHAPTER XI 



SCIENCE AND EXPRESSION 



" Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to 

 Science. Coleridge. 



ONE of the most urgent necessities of 

 education is to confer upon men and women 

 the capacity for expression and for appreciat- 

 ing expression in others. Poetry is the 

 highest form of expression man has yet found 

 for the deepest emotions of his heart. 



Perhaps no education can make a man a 

 poet, it being a divine endowment, but a 

 scientific education dulls a man's heart and 

 stops his ears to the song of poets, so that 

 he can neither produce poetry himself nor 

 appreciate it in others. 



To understand and derive pleasure from 

 poetry comes naturally and freely to the man 

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