LITERATURE ([page 233]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is literature in the most general sense? in more limited sense? 2. What does literature, used absolutely, denote? 3. How may literature include science? How is it ordinarily contrasted with science?
EXAMPLES.
Wherever —— consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears—there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens.
—— are lifelong friends.
—— are embalmed minds.
In our own language we have a —— nowhere surpassed, in whose lock no foreign key will ever rust.