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Show And, as the morning steals upon the night Melting the darkness, so their rising sense Begin to chase the ignorant fumes tha mantl ‘Their clearer reason Their understandin Begins to swell: and the approaching tid Will shortly fill the reasonable shore That now lie foul and muddy The perception of real affinities betwee events, (that is to say, of ideal affinities, fo those only are real,) enables the poet thu to make free with the most imposing form and phenomena of the world, and to asser the predominance of the soul 3. Whilst thus the poet delights us by animating nature like a creator, with his ow thoughts, he differs from the philosophe only herein, that the one proposes Beaut as his main end; the other Truth. But, th philosopher, not less than the poet, postpones the apparent order and relations o things to the empire of thought o "Th problem of philosophy," according to Plato «is, for all that exists conditionally, to fin a ground unconditioned and absolute." I proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena, which being known the phenomena can be predicted o Tha law, when in the mind, is an idea. It 6 Digital Imag iott Library University of Utah. A rights reserved. |