We have more moral, political, and historical wisdom than we know how to reduce into practice; we have more scientific and economical knowledge than can be accommodated to the just distribution of the produce which it multiplies. The poetry in these systems of thought is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes…. The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of the poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.
Megan Garber unearths an 1821 lament about “information overload” by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley – a reminder that it is, and always has been, absolutely critical to mind our information diet. (via explore-blog)

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