Question

Which poet said, “A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure, a mathematical head to be a complete and excellent poet….”?

Answer 1

A fire-mist and a planet,

A crystal and a cell,

A jellyfish and a saurian,

And caves where the cavemen dwell;

Then a sense of law and beauty,

And a face turned from the clod—

Some call it Evolution,

And others call it God.

— William Herbert Carruth

'Each in his Own Tongue', in Kansas in Literature: Part One, Poetry (1900), 83.

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A person by study must try to disengage the subject from useless matter, and to seize on points capable of improvement. ... When subjects are viewed through the mists of prejudice, useful truths may escape.

— Joseph MacSweeny

In An Essay on Aërial Navigation, With Some Observations on Ships (1844), 80.

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