40 The Bible of Nature 



dantry (as if science were merely a " preserve " for 

 expert intellectual sportsmen, and not also an edu- 

 cation for the citizen), of maniacal muck-raking 

 for items of fact (as if facts alone constituted a 

 science). Yet it is, like the other moods, a natural 

 and necessary expression of the developing human 

 spirit, and affords the foundation without which 

 practice is empirical and soon helpless, without 

 which emotion becomes sickly and superstitious. 



We have recalled this doctrine of the three 

 moods because it seems to place in proper per- 

 spective the question whether the scientific out- 

 look is not prejudicial to the sense of wonder. 

 The answer, of course, is that while we cannot have 

 too much science, it is for ordinary men and 

 women unwholesome to keep continually looking 

 out at one window, and to keep the shutters on the 

 others. Even for its own sake, science requires to 

 be continually moralized and socialized, oriented, 

 that is to say, in relation to othei ideals of human 

 life than its own immediate one of making a 

 thought-model of the cosmos. Our science re- 

 quires to be kept in touch at once with our life and 

 with our dreams; with our doing and with our 

 feeling; with our practice and with our poetry. 

 Synergy and sympathy are needed to complete a 

 practical synthesis. 



Thus, we sympathize with the emotional or ar- 

 tistic recoil from science, because it is so often dis- 



