Iscience and the modern toets1. The Might of ScienceDemocracy and Science have been the peculiar master-forces of our poetic growth. They haveShaped the COUrse Of thought and imagl- Democracy,nation during that great period which, Art. with unkind disregard for the labor in name-hunting entailed on posterity, we call for the present the modem age. To understand our poetry even a little, we must watch for the lines which manifest their control.Which force is the greater, none can say; but one alone can be studied in its completeness. For democracy with all its might is yet in its childhood. The political revolution may be accomplished; the social revolution is of the future, dimly foreseen by many a prophet, clearly foretold by none. But if the true social revolution be a thing of the future, the scientific revolution is assuredly a thing of the past. That the exclusive power of scientific thought has passed its prime, is evidenced by our present reaction towards mystiTable of Contents CONTENTS; PAGE; INTRODUCTION1; I SCIENCE AND THE MODERN POETS 5; 1 The Might of Science5; Democracy, Science and Art 5; Evolution as Theme 8; Evolution as Influence 12; 2 The Force-Idea14; Force in the Poetry of Nature 14 Force in the Poetry of Character 22 Force in the Poetry of Thought 26; 3 The Unity-Idea28; The Idea Absent28; The Idea Present and Justified 31; 4 The Realistic Temper37; Subjection to the Actual 37; Reverence for Law 41; Passion for Fact 43; 5 Dangers and Safeguards 51; II WORDSWORTH AND THE NEW DEMOCRACY 57; Exponent of the New Order 57; " Lyrical Ballads " and its Promise 60 The Experience of Wordsworth a Prophetic; Summary 64; Loyalty and Despondency 68; Wordsworth and a Social Democracy 73; Wordsworth and Modern Industry 78; Wordsworth and Carlyle 83; Wordsworth, Ruskin, and Morris 87; Wordsworth and the Modern Socialists 90; Phases of the Social