This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...than we know how to reduce into practice; we have,more scientific and economical knowledge than can be accommodated to the just distribution of the produce which it multiplies. The poetry/ 5 in these systems of thought is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at least what is wiser and better than 10 what men now practise and endure. But we let "I dare not wait upon I would, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the 15 poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest. The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of the poetical fac-::o ulty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave. To what but cultivation of the mechanical arts in a degree dis proportioned to the presence of the creative faculty, 25 which is the basis of all knowledge, is to be attributed the abuse of all invention for abridging and combining labor, to the exasperation of the inequality of mankind? From what other cause has it arisen that the discoveries which should have 30 lightened, have added a weight to the curse imposed on Adam? Poetry, and the principle of Self of / which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and Mammon of the world. Of The functions of the poetical faculty are two-Ifold: by one it creates new materials of knowledge, iland power, and pleasure; by the other it engenders i/iin the...