Lectures and Essays

IT is an open secret to the few who know it, but a mystery and a stumbling-block to the many, that Science and Poetry are own sisters ; insomuch that in those branches of scientific inquiry which are most abstract, most formal, and most remote from the grasp of the ordinary sensible imagination, a higher power of imagination akin to the creative insight of the poet is most needed and most fruitful of lasting work. This living and constructive energy projects itself out into the world at the...