Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

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We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half...

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance,...

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance,...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of...

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is...

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with...

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear...

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear...

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than...

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only...

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of...

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror...