The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 17

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Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 17: August, 1852Not that we object to dreaming. We cannot deny the soft impeach ment of being ourself a dreamer. We must e'en admit, sub rosa, the having whilom feloniously sequestered and devoured a mince pie, before retiring, to titillate our slumbers with these, airy visitants. That was in our childhood. We have grown wiser, we hope. We prefer day-dream ing, now. Reveries we particularly affect. There is a charm for us in lying under a tree in a pleasant June afternoon, watching the blue smoke as it curls from the end of our cigar. It is pleasant to let our fancy Shape the clouds into figures strange and wild, as they drift through the little scrap of blue sky that the interlacing boughs have spared us. It is vastly more agreeable to while away the evening with a pleasant com panion, chatting of little things, recalling old passages of some favorite author, and turning one another's attention to this or that quaint tri¿e in the present or the past, than to spend it in mastering some abstruse s ence, or exploring the hidden principles of some vast organization.We have no particular devotion to Science. We had rather weave our own pleasing fancies and half conceived theories, the more charming to us from their very absurdity, than discourse learnedly of parallax and penumbra, or argue closely upon formations, strata or eclipses. These are useful things, we admit, but they do not interest us. Had we been Sir Isaac Newton, we should have munched the apple, and counted the seeds. We might even have thrown the paring over our head, to see the first letter of our lady-love's name, (though we know that already, ) but the law of gravitation would never have struck us, or, if it had, we might have dismissed it as something not worth the thinking on.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.