Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
404
Language
English
Published
Nov 10, 2022
Publisher
Forgotten Books
ISBN-10
1331128501
ISBN-13
9781331128502
Description
Excerpt from The New June
To conciliate my critics, pray assure them at this point that I am aware of the distinction between artistic and scientific truth: I know the difference, in solidity and permanence, between the authentic material bones and the hypothetical superstructure - not much firmer at times than the stuff that dreams are made of. But I still claim to range myself with the historian, for he too uses 70577019, and he too has his answer for those who demand from him facts and nothing but facts. You show us modern-looking limbs, they say, limbs nu picturesquely like our own; whereas in the back garden we have found quaint old bones, which are quite different. These haunters of museums! Will you be able to convince them that the monster never lived whose body was in shape, size, or colour at all identical with his skeleton? Can you persuade them that there was more than the fortuitous grin of the skull in Hamlet's thought when he sighed, I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest?
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
To conciliate my critics, pray assure them at this point that I am aware of the distinction between artistic and scientific truth: I know the difference, in solidity and permanence, between the authentic material bones and the hypothetical superstructure - not much firmer at times than the stuff that dreams are made of. But I still claim to range myself with the historian, for he too uses 70577019, and he too has his answer for those who demand from him facts and nothing but facts. You show us modern-looking limbs, they say, limbs nu picturesquely like our own; whereas in the back garden we have found quaint old bones, which are quite different. These haunters of museums! Will you be able to convince them that the monster never lived whose body was in shape, size, or colour at all identical with his skeleton? Can you persuade them that there was more than the fortuitous grin of the skull in Hamlet's thought when he sighed, I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest?
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Genres
Science & Technology
History