... both the political state and the individual soul separates reason and will (operations of the mind) from pleasure and the passions (occupations of the senses). In the doctrine of the Line the similar attributes of knowledge vs. illusion are approximated into a linear scale. Since poetry appeals to the more illusory sense perception, it is placed lower in the scale; it cannot ... the subject, merely that his observations on poetry are consonant with his over-all theory of "becoming." Aristotle says that "generally art partly completes what nature cannot bring to a finish, and partly imit...

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