The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Fragments from the Table of an Intellectual Epicure

All Souls. "Fragments from the Table of an Intellectual Epicure." New-York Saturday Press, July 17, 1860, 2.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
commentary
Abstract

A discussion about how nature and art do not have the theory and law that binds science to straight and narrow perceptions. The author encourages intellectual curiosity, even if it leads to failure, because error "gives life and character to truth."