earthly.--They merge with common emotions, and express such as
find no object in nature.--Music lends elementary feelings an
intellectual communicable form.--All essences are in themselves good,
even the passions.--Each impulse calls for a possible congenial
world.--Literature incapable of expressing pure feelings.--Music may do
so.--Instability the soul of matter.--- Peace the triumph of
spirit.--Refinement is true strength. Pages 44-67

CHAPTER V

SPEECH AND SIGNIFICATION

Sounds well fitted to be symbols.--Language has a structure independent
of things.--Words, remaining identical, serve to identify things that
change.--Language the dialectical garment of facts.--Words are wise
men's counters.--Nominalism right in psychology and realism in
logic.--Literature moves between the extremes of music and
denotation.--Sound and object, in their sensuous presence, may have
affinity.--Syntax positively representative.--Yet it vitiates what it
represents.--Difficulty in subduing a living medium.--Language
foreshortens experience.--It is a perpetual mythology.--It may be apt or
inapt, with equal richness.--Absolute language a possible but foolish
art Pages 68-86

CHAPTER VI

POETRY AND PROSE

Force of primary expressions.--Its exclusiveness and
narrowness.--Rudimentary poetry an incantation or charm.--Inspiration
irresponsible.--Plato's discriminating view.--Explosive and pregnant
expression.--Natural history of inspiration.--Expressions to be
understood must be recreated, and so changed.--Expressions may be recast
perversely, humourously, or sublimely.--The nature of prose.--It is more
advanced and responsible than poetry.--Maturity brings love of
practical truth.--Pure prose would tend to efface itself.--Form alone,
or substance alone, may be poetical.--Poetry has its place in the
medium.--It is the best medium possible.--Might it not convey what it is
best to know?--A rational poetry would exclude much now thought
poetical.--All apperception modifies its object.--Reason has its own
bias and method.--Rational poetry would envelop exact knowledge in
ultimate emotions.--An illustration.--Volume can be found in scope
better than in suggestion Pages 87-115

CHAPTER VII

PLASTIC CONSTRUCTION

Automatic expression often leaves traces in the outer world.--Such
effects fruitful.--Magic authority of man's first creations.--Art brings
relief from idolatry.--Inertia in technique.--Inertia in
appreciation.--Adventitiou