His opinions are determined not by his reason - 'the bulk of mankind' says Swift 'is as well qualified for flying as for thinking' - but by his passions and the faintest of all human passions is the love of truth.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. "Introductory Lecture" delivered on Octoat University College, London. The house of delusions is cheap to build, but draughty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall. This parody was first written in 1883, but quoted here from a revised version of 1927 Whence by what way how purposed art thou comeĪlcmaeon: I journeyed hither a Boeotian road.Ĭhorus: Sailing on horseback or with feet for oars?Īlcmaeon: Plying by turns my partnership of legs.Ĭhorus: Beneath a shining or a rainy Zeus?Īlcmaeon: Mud's sister, not himself, adorns my shoes.Ĭhorus: To learn your name would not displease me much.Īlcmaeon: Not all that men desire do they attain. Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Chorus: O suitably attired in leather boots. Referring to Luke 17:33, 'Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it' (the wording used by Housman). The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world. 
1.5 The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933).
1.3 The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism (1921).
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