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is a beam from heaven that daisies blind our reason. Campbell.

Beauty is a beam from heaven that daisies blind our reason.

is beautifying --- distance lends enchantment to the view and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

's blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.

The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.

is a genre where the revealed truths of Science may be given, interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true—thus circulating a knowledge of the Poetry of Science, clothed in a garb of the Poetry of life (1851 and the first recorded use of the word science fiction).

We hope it will not be long before we may have other works of Science-Fiction [like Richard Henry Horne’s ‘‘The Poor Artist’’], as we believe such books likely to fulfil a good purpose, and create an interest, where, unhappily, science alone might fail. [Thomas] Campbell says, that ‘‘Fiction in Poetry is not the reverse of truth, but her soft and enchanting resemblance.’’ Now this applies especially to Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given, interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true—thus circulating a knowledge of the Poetry of Science, clothed in a garb of the Poetry of life.

is the foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, ever since the world began.

Thomas Campbell

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