As Civilization Advances, Poetry Almost Necessarily Declines.

As Civilization Advances, Poetry Almost Necessarily Declines.

All The Walks Of Literature Are Infested With Mendicants For Fame, Who Attempt To Excite Our Interest By Exhibiting All The Distortions Of Their Intellects And Stripping The Covering From All The Putrid Sores Of Their Feelings.

Men Are Never So Likely To Settle A Question Rightly As When They Discuss It Freely.

Western Literature Has Been More Influenced By The Bible Than Any Other Book.

Both In Individuals And In Masses Violent Excitement Is Always Followed By Remission, And Often By Reaction. We Are All Inclined To Depreciate Whatever We Have Overpraised, And, On The Other Hand, To Show Undue Indulgence Where We Have Shown Undue Rigor.