[Footnotes]
[Transcriber’s Note]
_The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry,
where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race,
as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer
stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an
accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable,
not a received tradition which does not threaten to
dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the
fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion
to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for
poetry the idea is everything._--Matthew Arnold.