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Excerpt from The Necessity of Poetry: An Address Given to the Tredegar District Co-Operative Society, Nov; 22, 1917
Now whatever appreciation or respect Newton may have had for the Iliad, he is complaining that it was of no use to him as a scientific his torian, and I imagine him asking why those old poets could not tell us plainly what they really knew, instead of inventing irrelevant false fan cies about the Gods, and things that never were?
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