Literature Delivers Tidings Of The World Within

In Its Happiest Efforts, Translation Is But Approximation, And Its Efforts Are Not Often Happy. A Translation May Be Good As Translation, But It Cannot Be An Adequate Reproduction Of The Original.

"there Is One Basis Of Science," Says Descartes, "one Test And Rule Of Truth, Namely, That Whatever Is Clearly And Distinctly Conceived Is True." A Profound Psychological Mistake. It Is True Only Of Formal Logic, Wherein The Mind Never Quits The Sphere Of Its First Assumptions To Pass Out Into The Sphere Of Real Existences; No Sooner Does The Mind Pass From The Internal Order To The External Order, Than The Necessity Of Verifying The Strict Correspondence Between The Two Becomes Absolute. The Ideal Test Must Be Supplemented By The Real Test, To Suit The New Conditions Of The Problem.

The True Function Of Philosophy Is To Educate Us In The Principles Of Reasoning And Not To Put An End To Further Reasoning By The Introduction Of Fixed Conclusions.

Good Writers Are Of Necessity Rare.

Except In The Rare Cases Of Great Dynamic Thinkers Whose Thoughts Are As Turning-points In The History Of Our Race, It Is By Style That Writers Gain Distinction, By Style They Secure Their Immortality.