Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.


Select Essays of Macaulay: Milton, Bunyan, Johnson, Goldsmith, Madame D'Arblay (ed. 1891)

Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.