The Idolatry of Science 



tions, pure emotions and all the loveliness of 

 the world as God made it ; the proper field 

 for poetry is a filthy back street in a slum, 

 the gross and bestial passions of the yahoos 

 of the public-house, the brutal language, the 

 sordid actions, the squalid murders of dirty 

 people " that tear each other in their slime." 



Such has been the effect of the rise of 

 Science upon the poetry and the criticism of 

 England. 



And in painting and drawing we find a 

 like sinister result. ' JBeauty is out of fashion 

 and hideousness has come into its own. 

 Gaping crowds stand and gaze in awestruck 

 wonderment before pictures of nude men and 

 women with legs like German sausages and 

 bodies like the undulating gas-bags that at 

 one time oscillated atop of motor cars. While 

 other geniuses, not to be outdone by this 

 school that paints the head as a lard bladder, 

 determine to present the human form to the 



