Practical Ethics

Henry Sidgwick

Essay 6, Footnote #08
Surprising that this metaphor persists


It is curious to note how the imagination---is distinct from the Thought---of the region of departed spirits as being beneath the region of living men, still survives in the modern mind, notwithstanding the long domination of a conception of the physical universe that might have been expected to exclude it. We find it even in so intensely serious and profoundly modern a poem as Tennyson's In Memoriam:

``So, dearest, now thy brows are cold
I see thee what thou art, and know
Thy likeness to the wise below,
Thy kindred with the great of old.''


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