analogy-loving

Updated: May 7, 2025

Now the Bishop Butler type of mind the visualizing, idealizing, analogy-loving, literary, and philosophical mind is shared by a good many people; it is shared by or is characteristic of all the great poets, artists, seers, idealists of the world; it is the humanistic type that sees man everywhere reflected in nature; and is radically different from the strictly scientific type which dehumanizes nature and reduces it to impersonal laws and forces, which distrusts analogy and sentiment and poetry, and clings to a rigid logical method.

John Burroughs - The Breath of Life