The Idolatry of Science 



alive and cannot be argued out of that un- 

 doubted attribute of the mind, but many 

 people have not an equally indisputable 

 consciousness of the existence of beauty 

 in the world about them ; and they have not 

 therefore resisted the gradual sapping of the 

 sense of beauty that Science has insidiously 

 been effecting in every field of human effort 

 for the last half century. 



Beauty has gradually been dethroned and 

 ugliness exalted in poetry, painting, sculpture, 

 and all forms of human expression. 



Uncouth collections of words, with neither 

 rhyme nor rhythm are printed in lines of no 

 particular length down the middle of the 

 pages of a book entitled " Poetry " on its 

 cover, and the critics hail the impertinence 

 as the last note of poetic triumph over the 

 ancient and discredited shibboleths of literary 

 law and order ; and if the author, greatly 

 daring, shall advance upon the public and 

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