Maurice Thompson
Sylvan Secrets: In Bird-Songs and Books
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books Feb. 15, 2019)
Excerpt from Sylvan Secrets: In Bird-Songs and Books
Possibly I am the only person in the world who ever fancied that the highest form of poetry may lurk in the problems of compara tive anatomy and physiology. Be this as it may, behind the hints and correlations and suggestions of dry bones and dessicated fossils there appears to me an epic of awful glory and power and significance. What a romance is geology! What a melodrama is life from its lowest to its highest forms! We are apt to look upon Darwin as a realist; but when we read him well he is a poet like Milton, a dreamer like Pythagoras, a prophet like Daniel, a dramatist like Shakespeare.
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Possibly I am the only person in the world who ever fancied that the highest form of poetry may lurk in the problems of compara tive anatomy and physiology. Be this as it may, behind the hints and correlations and suggestions of dry bones and dessicated fossils there appears to me an epic of awful glory and power and significance. What a romance is geology! What a melodrama is life from its lowest to its highest forms! We are apt to look upon Darwin as a realist; but when we read him well he is a poet like Milton, a dreamer like Pythagoras, a prophet like Daniel, a dramatist like Shakespeare.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- ISBN
- 0365493295 / 9780365493297
- Pages
- 142
- Weight
- 12.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.98 x 0.38 in.
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