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When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,__r, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge__ phrase, for unity in variety.
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When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,__r, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge__ phrase, for unity in variety.
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