Science and Expression 



poetry. I have also almost lost my taste 

 for pictures or music." 



And in another place he says : 



" It may be truly said that I am like a 

 man who has become colour blind." 



This is to own that in the atrophy of his 

 perception of beauty he was himself reverting 

 to the condition of the arboreal ape from 

 which it was his lofty claim to have been 

 descended. 



As of poetry, so of prose, and so of 

 speech. 



The great writers of prose, and those 

 whose eloquence has moved the world, de- 

 rived none of their powers from Science, but 

 from a reverent study of the great writing 

 and great speech of those who have gone 

 before them. 



The Bible, which is the corner-stone of 

 literature, and upon which all the greatest 



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