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Excerpt from The Higher Criticism
The learned Italian critic Comparetti, thus caustic ally describes the analytical, methods of those critics, - This restless business of analysis, which has lasted so long, impatient of its own fruitlessness, yet unconvinced of it, builds up and pulls down and builds up again; while its shifting foundations, its insufficient and falsely applied criteria, condemn it to remain fruitless, tedious and repulsive. The observer marks with amazement the degree of intellectual short_ sightedness produced by excessive and exclusive analysis. The investigator becomes a kind of micro scope man, 'who can see atoms but not bodies motes, and those magnified, but not beams.
The same tendency to disintegration appears wherever this arbitrary and baseless method of literary analysis 1s applied. The critics were at first content to bisect Isaiah into' an earlier and a later prophet. Now Professor Cheyne reduces the first Isaiah to a small nucleus enveloped in three accretions each of them composite. To the second Isaiah, so called, of the Exile, he allows five 'chapters, and divides up the balance among some ten writers.
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