De Quincey's Writings
De Quincey's Writings
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The Schlegels, with all their false airs of subtlety, fall into this error in discussing every literature of Chris- tendom. But, if by a mere accident of life any poet had first turned his thoughts into a particular channel on the suggestion of some French book, that would not justify our classing lyhat belongs to universal na- ture, and what inevitably arises at a certain stage of social progress, under the category of a French crea- tion. Somebody must have been first in point of time upon ev...ery field; but -this casual precedency estab- lishes no title whatever to authority, or plea of original dominion over fields that lie within the inevitable line of march upon which nations are moving. Had it Digitized by VjOOQIC ▲LEXANDSE POPE. 157 happened that the first European writer on the higher geometry was a GrEBCo-Sicilian, that would not have made it rational to call geometry the Grseco-Sicilian Science. In every nation first comes the higher form of passion, next the lower. This is the mere order of nature in governing the movements of human intellect, as connected with social evolution ; this is therefore the universal order, that in the earliest stages of litera- ture, men deal with the great elementary grandeurs of passion, of conscience, of the will in self-conflict; they deal with the capital struggle of the human race in raising empires, or in overthrowing them — in vindicating their religion (as by crusades), or with the more mysterious struggles amongst spiritual races allied to our own, that have been dimly revealed to us.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Schlegels, with all their false airs of subtlety, fall into this error in discussing every literature of Chris- tendom. But, if by a mere accident of life any poet had first turned his thoughts into a particular channel on the suggestion of some French book, that would not justify our classing lyhat belongs to universal na- ture, and what inevitably arises at a certain stage of social progress, under the category of a French crea- tion. Somebody must have been first in point of time upon ev...ery field; but -this casual precedency estab- lishes no title whatever to authority, or plea of original dominion over fields that lie within the inevitable line of march upon which nations are moving. Had it Digitized by VjOOQIC ▲LEXANDSE POPE. 157 happened that the first European writer on the higher geometry was a GrEBCo-Sicilian, that would not have made it rational to call geometry the Grseco-Sicilian Science. In every nation first comes the higher form of passion, next the lower. This is the mere order of nature in governing the movements of human intellect, as connected with social evolution ; this is therefore the universal order, that in the earliest stages of litera- ture, men deal with the great elementary grandeurs of passion, of conscience, of the will in self-conflict; they deal with the capital struggle of the human race in raising empires, or in overthrowing them — in vindicating their religion (as by crusades), or with the more mysterious struggles amongst spiritual races allied to our own, that have been dimly revealed to us.
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