358 Professor Tyndall on Ooethe's ^Farhenlehre.* [March 19, 



heirs of all the ages that preceded us ; and of the human nature thus 

 handed down poetry is an element just as much as science. The 

 emotions of man are older than his understanding, and the poet 

 who brightens, purifies, and exalts these emotions may claim a posi- 

 tion in the world at least as high and as well assured as that of the 

 man of science. They minister to different but to equally permanent 

 needs of human nature ; and the incompleteness of which I complain 

 consists in the endeavour on the part of either to exclude the other. 

 There is no fear that the man of science can ever destroy the glory of 

 the lilies of the field ; there is no hope that the poet can ever success- 

 fully contend against our right to examine, in accordance with scientific 

 method, the agent to which the lily owes its glory. There is no 

 necessary encroachment of the one field upon the other. Nature em- 

 braces them both, and man, when he is complete, will exhibit as large 

 a toleration. 



[J. T.] 



