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possibilities of action, in obedience to Nature's 

 primary command, " Be up and doing." The man 

 of feeling is not concerned with loaves and fishes; 

 he "hitches his waggon to the stars"; he seeks to 

 "live on even terms with Time," 



"Whilst upper life the slender rill 

 Of human sense doth overfill." 



The herbs and the bees, the birds and the beasts, 

 send tendrils into his heart, claiming and finding 

 kinship. In a hundred different ways he echoes 

 Schiller's words: 



"O wunderschon ist Gottes Erde, 

 Und schb'n auf ihr ein Mensch zu sein." 



The scientific mood, on the other hand, has for 

 its main intention to describe the sequences in 

 nature in the simplest possible formulae, to make 

 a thought-model of the known world. The sci- 

 entific man has elected primarily to know, not do. 

 He does not seek, like the practical man, to realize 

 the ideal of controlling nature and life, though he 

 makes this more possible; he seeks rather to ideal- 

 ize to conceptualize the real, or at least those 

 aspects of reality which are available in his ex- 

 perience. He would make the world translucent, 

 not that emotion may catch the glimmer of the 

 indefinable light that shines through, but for other 

 reasons because of his inborn inquisitiveness, 



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