Excerpt from Art and Life This book seeks to trace the above general conception through art's relations with science and morals: it contends both against those who believe that poetry arises naturally out of life, as tree, flower and fruit spring from the soil, and those who hold that art, like instruction, should be addressed to the improvement of persons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.