Endeavour To Be Faithful, And If There

The Object Of Literature Is To Instruct, To Animate, Or To Amuse.

Science Is Not Addressed To Poets.

The Art Of Writing Is Not, As Many Seem To Imagine, The Art Of Bringing Fine Phrases Into Rhythmical Order, But The Art Of Placing Before The Reader Intelligible Symbols Of The Thoughts And Feelings In The Writer's Mind.

Not Only The Individual Experience Slowly Acquired, But The Accumulated Experience Of The Race, Organized In Language, Condensed In Instruments And Axioms, And In What May Be Called The Inherited Intuitions--these Form The Multiple Unity Which Is Expressed In The Abstract Term "experience.

The History Of The Race Is But That Of The Individual "writ Large".