...intellect, boldly contending for those principles whose truth appears now, to our disenfranchised reason, so utterly obvious — principles which should have...race to submit to the guidance of the natural laws, rathsr than attempt their control. At long inV"\ tervals some master-minds appeared, looking upon each...

...intellect, boldly contending for those principles whose truth appears now, to our disenfranchised reason, so utterly obvious — principles which should have...natural laws, rather than attempt their control. At long in. tervals some master-minds appeared, looking upon each advance in practical science as a retro-gradation...

...means perceptible to the poet. " At long intervals," one of his ultra-mortal characters remarks, " some master-minds appeared, looking upon each advance...practical science as a retrogradation in the true utility; . . . that knowledge was not meet for man in the infant condition of his soul. . . . The poets —...

...disenfranchised reason, so utterly obvious — principles which should have taught our race to suhmit c-lookin heen the most exalted of all — since those trutbs to us were of the most enduring importance and...

...like "Mellonta Tauta," takes place in the distant future, Monos reviews the last age of the earth: At long intervals some master-minds appeared, looking...practical science as a retro-gradation in the true utility . . . these men— the poets — living and perishing amid the scorn of the "utilitarians" . . . pondered...