On the Art of Writing / Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914

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voir: induire pour déduire, afin de construire. The desire to make things, to build things up, to control ways and means, to master the resources of nature, to put his knowledge of her laws and facts to practical use, is strong in his so

ers into the art of making mud-pies and has also been applied in the past to great poetry. If you don't kee