The Poetry of Real Life A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Improved. By Henry Ellison |
TO ARTISTS WHO LOOK WITH JEALOUS EYES ON ARTISTICAL
PROCESSES, SUCH AS CHROMALITHOGRAPHY, ETC. ETC. |
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TO ARTISTS WHO LOOK WITH JEALOUS EYES ON ARTISTICAL PROCESSES, SUCH AS CHROMALITHOGRAPHY, ETC. ETC.
The mind of Man can never supersedeItself by its inventions: though it make
“Machines to calculate,” and from it take
The mere mechanic processes, which need
But little, save attention, to succeed—
And this, in Nature's course, for its sole sake
Was so ordained: that thus all bonds 't might break,
And freer move, as 't were with wings indeed!
Fear not—the great, creative mind of Man
Takes a far wider scope than sense can span;
And all these rare inventions have but worth
As means and instruments, whereby he can
Mould more completely to his will this earth,
And give his own divine conceptions birth!
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