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intellectual malaise of Europe. He continues Shakespeare’s
argument in Lear and Donne’s in the Anatomy of the World :
’Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,
All just supply and all relation.
It is the division of sense and the separation of words
from their functions that Pope decries exactly as does
Shakespeare in King Lear . Art and science had been separated
as visual quantification and homogenization penetrated to
every domain and the mechanization of language and literature
proceeded:
Beneath her foot-stool Science groans in Chains,
And Wit dreads Exile, Penalties and Pains.
There foam’d rebellious Logic gagg’d and bound,