We Must Reject That Most

Writers Don't Seem To Benefit Much By The Advance Of Science, Although They Thrive On Superstitions Of All Kinds.

The Ups And Downs Of This Cosmos May Sometimes Be Acknowledged To Be Metaphorical Ups And Downs, But Until About Newton's Time Most People Took The "up" Of Heaven And The "down" Of Hell To Be More Or Less Descriptive.

What If Criticism Is A Science As Well As An Art? Not A Pure Or Exact Science, Of Course, But These Phrases Belong To A Nineteenth-century Cosmology Which Is No Longer With Us.

Horace, In A Particularly Boastful Mood, Once Said His Verse Would Last As Long As The Vestal Virgins Kept Going Up The Capitoline Hill To Worship At The Temple Of Jupiter. But Horace's Poetry Has Lasted Longer Than Jupiter's Religion, And Jupiter Himself Has Only Survived Because He Disappeared Into Literature.

Everything That Happens In The Old Testament Is A "type" Or Adumbration Of Something That Happens In The New Testament, And The Whole Subject Is Therefore Called Typology, Though It Is A Typology In A Special Sense.