Letter XXIV ACCORDINGLY three different moments or stages of development can be distinguished, which the individual man, as well as the...

Letter XXIII I TAKE up the thread of my researches, which I broke off only to apply the principles I laid down to practical art and the...

Letter XXII ACCORDINGLY, if the æsthetic disposition of the mind must be looked upon in one respect as nothing—that is, when we confine...

WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the...

Letter XXI I HAVE remarked in the beginning of the foregoing letter that there is a twofold condition of determinableness and a twofold...

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded,...

Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicéan barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his...

Letter XX THAT freedom is an active and not a passive principle results from its very conception; but that liberty itself should be an...

Letter XIX TWO principal and different states of passive and active capacity of being determined can be distinguished in man; in like...

Letter XVIII BY beauty the sensuous man is led to form and to thought; by beauty the spiritual man is brought back to matter and...