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“BEAUTY is Truth, Truth Beauty,” wrote Keats, in passionate protest against all attempts to divorce them or to see in one the antipathy of the other. A similar recognition is growing that the oft-assumed antithesis between literature and science is a wanton and needless invention. The humanities of science has yet to be written, perhaps, though odd chapters have appeared from time to time; but the science of the humanities, if by such a phrase we may indicate the scientific treatment, in the widest sense of the word ‘science,’ of the material of the humanities, has for some time had its expositors.
A Dictionary of European Literature: Designed as a Companion to English Studies.
By Laurie Magnus. Pp. xii + 594. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Button and Co., 1926.) 25s. net.
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A Dictionary of European Literature: Designed as a Companion to English Studies . Nature 117, 616 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117616a0
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