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Excerpt from Studies in Idealism
All experience, therefore, teaches us that there are degrees of reality, and the greatest poetry is that which approaches the highest and purest degree of consciousness. The great artist widens man's com prehension, and sharpens his apprehension of life by expressing it with a new intensity of experience and from a new aspect. The poet has certainly suffered much at the hands of the pedant who tries to relate his world of vision to a scheme of logic, and he may perhaps be justified in crying, I feel and so I know, and bidding us feel too and say no more about it. Yet in his own interest there are two arguments to be urged against this. In the first place, the content of the sublimest poetry is generally beyond the uh educated faculties of men. All great art of an enduring quality strikes even the initiated at first as somewhat austere: to the sentimentalist its life is so immeasur ably purer than his undeveloped sense of values that it seems to be dead. There is scarcely a superlatively great poem in the world to which mankind was emotionally true enough to respond immediately. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
