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| | 'Poetry vs. Science': Positions |
 | | As yet there is a shrinking even from pure science, — that is, from all science which is not directly marketable; and while this is so, art must be still further postponed. |
 | | "Science is the great obsession of our age; we all render to it, often unconsciously, a sort of worship, and can not help but feel a kind of scorn for poetry. |
 | | "Like the poet, the man of science also must always be able to put himself in thought in the place of Nature, to learn how she acts, and to represent to himself what she might do if one should change the conditions of her action. |
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