Abstract
IT is in days of strongly marked utilitarianism, when so much is brought into the market that was never intended to go there, and so much of what is there is unfortunately rated at its marketable value only, that corresponding efforts should be made, by those who have the welfare of society at heart, to maintain the due balance of the human intellect by the cultivation of its imaginative faculty. It is here that poetry affords the noblest aid; and even the profusion of modern fiction may be looked upon by the philanthropist with less regret; if only moderately sensible and well-guided, it may lend important assistance in obviating that degeneration which would be the sure result of undue and excessive mental development in any one direction.
The Romance of Astronomy.
By R. Kalley Miller (Macmillan & Co., 1873.)
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W., T. Miller's Romance of Astronomy . Nature 8, 140–141 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008140a0
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