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Show beauty is infinite. The true philosopher an the true poet are one, and a beauty, whic is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, i the aim of both. Is not the char of on of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions, strictl like that of the Antigone of Sophocles? I is, in both cases, that a spiritual life ha been imparted to nature; that the soli seeming block of matter has been pervade and dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vas masses of nature with an informing soul and recognised itself in their harmony that is, seized their law. In physics, whe this is attained, the memory disburthen itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observatio in a single formula Thus even in physics, the material is eve degraded before the spiritual. The astronomer, the geometer, rely on their irrefrag able analysis, and disdain the results o observation. The sublime remark of Eule on his law of arches, " This will be foun contrary to all experience, yetis true;" ha already transferred nature into the mind and left matter like an outcast corpse 4. Intellectual science has been observe 6 '© 2005 Mariott Library Un |
