English poetry -- 19th century; Women -- History; Women -- Social conditions; Women -- Suffrage
Would thou couldst feel in deep earnest, how beautiful God will be then,
When we see Him as Jove or Apollo in men who inspire us with love,
As Juno and Venus the holy, in women who know not the mean,
And feel not the influence cruel of hardness and self-love and scorn.
Would thou couldst once know how real the presence of God will become,
How earnest and ever more earnest thy faith when thyself shall be great,
And from the true worship of others thoult learn what is holy in them,
And rise to the infinite fountain of glory which flows in us all.”
—C. G. Leland (“The Return of the Gods”).
LXI.
3.—“_Their science_ ...”
“Science then
Shall be a precious visitant; and then
And only then, be worthy of her name:
For then her heart shall kindle; her dull eye,
Dull and inanimate, no more shall hang
Chained to its object in brute slavery;
But taught with patient industry to watch
The processes of things, and serve the cause
Of order and distinctness, not for this
Shall it forget that its most noble use,
Its most illustrious province, must be found
In furnishing clear guidance, a support
Not treacherous, to the mind’s _excursive_ power.”
—Wordsworth (“The Excursion,” Book IV.).
4.—“... _crude dimensions_ ...”
“In these material things, too, I think that we require another circle
of ideas, and I believe that such ideas are possible, and, in a manner
of speaking, exist. Let me exhort everyone to do their utmost to think
outside and beyond our present circle of ideas. For every idea gained is
a hundred years of slavery remitted. Even with the idea of organisation,
which promises most, I am not satisfied, but endeavour to get beyond and
outside it, so that the time now necessary may be shortened.”—Richard
Jefferies (“Story of My Heart,” p. 180).
8.—“_The love that lifts the life from rank of earth to heaven._”
“... utter knowledge is but utter love—
Æonian Evolution, swift and slow,
Thro’ all the spheres—an ever opening height,
An ever lessening earth.”
—Tennyson (“The Ring”).
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