The Vassar Buic Vil Miscellany. ان PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. October, 1883. ENTERPRISE STEAM PRINT, POUGHKEEPSIE, Notwithstanding the popular cry that positivism is the death-blow of poetry and romance, the new school of philosophy has its department of belles lettres, and this branch of its literature plays a most important part in the dissem ination of its doctrines. Poets and novelists write from the emotional and sentimental stand-point, and give the effects of theories upon life in general, rather than any discussion of the truth or falsehood of these theories. Thus positivism, that is more a philosophy than a religion, and nothing if it is not logical, is presented from an entirely new point of view in their writings. There we see not its causes, but its effects; those who write its "light literature" leave to the philosopher and the logician the task of proving its truth or false533 |