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As poets have extraordinary inklings and aperçus on the most abstruse scientific questions, Wordsworth's opinion on this matter (quoted by De Quincy) is worth considering: Language is not the “dress” of thought, it is the “incarnation.” This is Shelley's aperçu of Darwinism. Man exists “but in the future and the past; being, not what he is, but what he has been and shall be.”
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GRENFELL, A. Thought without Words. Nature 36, 173 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036173a0
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