Character Sketch. Sir Edward Burne-Jones
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Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography |
Subjects: | Anti-Scientism, Spectroscopy, Instruments, Commerce, Idealism, Measurement |
Observes that part of the huge popularity of the late artist Edward C Burne-Jones was 'no doubt due to the natural recoil of our age from the indulgence of its predominant passion. Science with its spectroscope and its innumerable apparati of research is explaining everything. Commerce with its insatiate grasp is seizing everything. But Burne-Jones stood up in the midst of the scientific and commercial generation and proclaimed aloud that there is a knowledge which no scientist can measure and a glory which no enterprise can seize' (23). |
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