A Defense of Poetry
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From these two circum- 5 stances really diminished personal power, and apparently diminished familiarity with gods and genii they very easily and naturally deduce two conclusions: 1st, That men are degenerated, and 2nd, That they are less in favor with the gods. The people of the petty states and colonies, which 10 have now acquired stability and form, which owed their origin and first prosperity to the talents and courage of a single chief, magnify their founder through the mists of distance a...nd tradition, and perceive him achieving wonders with a god or goddess always at his elbow. They find his name is and his exploits thus magnified and accompanied in their traditionary songs, which are their only memorials. All that is said of him is in this character. There is nothing to con- tradict it. The man and his exploits and his tutelary deities are mixed and blended in one invariable association. The 20 marvelous, too, is very much like a snowball : it grows as it rolls downward, till the little nucleus of truth, which began its descent from the summit, is hidden in the accumulation of superinduced hyperbole.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
From these two circum- 5 stances really diminished personal power, and apparently diminished familiarity with gods and genii they very easily and naturally deduce two conclusions: 1st, That men are degenerated, and 2nd, That they are less in favor with the gods. The people of the petty states and colonies, which 10 have now acquired stability and form, which owed their origin and first prosperity to the talents and courage of a single chief, magnify their founder through the mists of distance a...nd tradition, and perceive him achieving wonders with a god or goddess always at his elbow. They find his name is and his exploits thus magnified and accompanied in their traditionary songs, which are their only memorials. All that is said of him is in this character. There is nothing to con- tradict it. The man and his exploits and his tutelary deities are mixed and blended in one invariable association. The 20 marvelous, too, is very much like a snowball : it grows as it rolls downward, till the little nucleus of truth, which began its descent from the summit, is hidden in the accumulation of superinduced hyperbole.
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