THE SCIENTIFIC MOOD 11 



has arisen in direct response to practical needs, 

 whether of measuring land or measuring elec- 

 tricity ! 



On the other hand, the risks of a tyrannous 

 practical mood are great. When things get into 

 the saddle and override ideas and ideals and all 

 good feeling, when the multiplication of loaves 

 and fishes becomes the only problem in the world, 

 we know the results to be vicious. To be wholly 

 practical is to grub for edible roots and see no 

 flowers upon the earth, no stars overhead. The 

 exaggeratedly practical man "will have nothing 

 to do with sentiment," though he prides himself 

 in keeping close to "the facts"; he cannot abide 

 "theory," though he is himself imbued with a 

 quaint Martin Tupperism which gives a false sim- 

 plicity to the problems of life; he will live, he in- 

 sists, in "the real world," and yet he often hugs 

 close to himself the most unreal of ideals. 



THE EMOTIONAL MOOD. Secondly, there is the 

 emotional and artistic mood, which finds expres- 

 sion in Schiller's words: "O wunderschon ist 

 Gottes Erde, und schon auf ihr ein Mensch zu 

 sein." "Oh wondrous beautiful is God's earth, 

 and good it is to be a man upon it." 



From man's first emergence, perhaps, the 

 herbs and the trees, the birds and the beasts, sent 

 tendrils into his heart, claiming and finding kin- 

 ship. Ever so early there must have been a 



