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direction ; only men of the largest calibre and most 

 heroic fibre are adequate to the service. Hence 

 one finds in Tennyson a vast deal more science than 

 he would at first suspect; but it is under his feet; 

 it is no longer science, but faith, or reverence, or 

 poetic nutriment. It is in "Locksley Hall," "The 

 Princess," "In Memoriam," "Maud," and in others 

 of his poems. Here is a passage from "In Me- 

 moriam : " — 



"They say, 

 The solid earth whereon we tiead 



" In tracts of fluent heat began, 



And grew to seeming-random forms, 

 The seeming prey of cyclic storms, 

 Till at the last arose the man ; 



"Who throve and branch' d from clime to clime, 

 The herald of a higher race, 

 And of himself in higher place 

 If so he type this work of time 



"Within himself, from more to more ; 

 Or, crown'd with attributes of woe, 

 Like glories, move his course, and show 

 That life is not as idle ore, 



" But iron dug from central gloom. 

 And heated hot with burning fears. 

 And dipt in baths of hissing tears, 

 And batter'd with the shocks of doom 



" To shape and use. Arise and fly 

 The reeling Faun, the sensual feast; 

 Move upward, working out the beast. 

 And let the ape and tiger die." 



Or in this stanza behold how the science is disguised 

 or turned into the sweetest music : — 



