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Wordsworth and Science
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Wordsworth and Science

  • H. A. SCRUTON1 

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WORDSWORTH'S apparent antipathy to science, as revealed by the quotations which Dr. Wigglesworth has given in NATURE of March 25 from his poetical works, has always provoked adverse comment, not unnaturally, from scientific men, and the quotation which has so long adorned the front page of NATURE has always borne a somewhat ironical air.

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