Crossword-Solution: SYSTEMATISER 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

The popular instinct has long ago seen that the vital thing is the _matter_--that it is profanity to call that "poetry" which is only verse; it remains to be recognised that even the distinction of form rests only on the non-recognition of the rhythm of "prose,"--a rhythm that is not metre in so far as metre has the sense of regular measure, but may for all that have laws of its own, which await the discoverer and the systematiser.

That the morphological conception of a Species is not a positive but only a relative conception, and that it has no other absolute or positive value than those other similar system-categories--sports, varieties, races, tribes, families, classes--is now acknowledged by every systematiser who forms an honest and unprejudiced judgment of the practical systematic distinction of species.

Here Werner, the father of geology, and Humboldt, the systematiser of physical geography, were pupils.

Thus he shows us "parenthetical" legs, as Dickens wittily called them, by the side of those of "a friend in-kneed," and a man (dumbly miserable) arrested on a rope-walk is "taken in tow." Viewing Cruikshank at this game does not help one to endorse the statement of Thomas Love Peacock, inspired by the drawing of January in "The Comic Almanack" (1838), "A great philosopher art thou, George Cruikshank, In thy unmatched grotesqueness," for a philosopher is a systematiser and a punster is an anarchist.