Monday, April 28, 2025

A Natural Mistake

“The great error of the 19th century, in morality as well as in science and art, has been to mingle and confound man and nature without pausing to consider that in art as in science and morality he is a man only in so far as he distinguishes himself from nature, and makes himself an exception to it.”--Ferdinand Brunetière
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