COUNTER-SPIRITS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Summary
The two main principles of the so-called historical criticism are the Postulate of Vulgarity and the Axiom of the Average. The Postulate of Vulgarity: everything great, good and beautiful is improbable because it is extraordinary and, at the very least, suspicious. The Axiom of the Average: as we and our surroundings are, so must it have been always and everywhere, because that, after all, is so very natural.
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- Wordsworth's Philosophic Song , pp. 33 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006