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The poetry of barbarism is not without its charm. It can play with sense and passion the more readily and freely in that it does not aspire to subordinate them to a clear thought or a tenable attitude of the will.

The defect of such art-lack of distinction, absence of beauty, confusion of ideas, incapacity permanently to please - will hardly be felt by the contemporary public, if once its attention is arrested; for no poet is so undisciplined that he will not find many readers, if he find readers at all, less disciplined than himself.

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Never, we suppose, was an age in which art stood in greater need of the true law of decorum than this. Its philosophy has played it false. It has passed from the nebulous Hegelian adulation of the accomplished fact... to an adulation of science and of instinct. From one side comes the cry, ‘Man is a beast’; from the other, ‘Trust your instincts’, The sole manifest employment of reason is to overthrow itself....

At all events it is certain that in Aristotle the present generation would find the beginnings of a remedy for that fatal confusion of categories which has overcome the world. It is the confusion between existence and value. That strange malady of the mind by which in the nineteenth century material progress was supposed to create ipso facto, a concomitant moral progress, and which so plunged the world into catastrophe, has its counterpart in a literature of objective realism.

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