To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason
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