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 therefore can never be discovered by its analomitization.

It is for this reason that I have always placed art first and esteemed it over science — in spite of every- thing.

Art is the pure effect of the force upon which science depends for its reality — Poetry

The effect of this realization upon life will be the emplacement of knowledge into a living current — which it has always sought —

In other times — men counted it a tragedy to be dislocated from sense — Today boys are sent with dullest faith to technical schools of all sorts — broken, bruised

few escape whole — slaughter. This is not civilization but stupidity — Before entering knowledge the integrity of the imagination —

The effect will be to give importance to the sub-divisions of experience — which today are absolutely lost — There exists simply nothing.

Prose — When values are important, such — For example there is no use denying that prose and poetry