On The Art of Reading

Chapter 10 No.10

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Dr Gummere, to contradict or refute him; he may even be held to support him inci

ed in man from his childhood, and in this he differs from other animals, being the most imitative of them all. Man gets hi

and rhythm, metre being manifestly a species of rhythm: and man, being born to these ins

the wrong? or true, as again instinct tells good men it should be, universally?' So he arrives at his conclusion that a true thing is not necessarily truth of fact in a world where truth in fact is so often belied or made meaningless-not the record that Alcibiades went somewhere and suffered something-but truth to the Universal, the superior demand of our conscience. In such a way only we know that "The Tempest" or "Paradise Lost" or

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