SCIENCE AND ART 169 



What have been the factors in the evolution of 

 Art? 



It goes without saying that aesthetics has its 

 philosophical as well as its scientific side, and we 

 may perhaps best illustrate the former in a brief 

 space by quoting the views of a leading sesthe- 

 tician on the relations of the True and the Good 

 and the Beautiful. Dr. Henry Rutgers Marshall 

 suggests that "the Beautiful is the Real as dis- 

 covered in the world of impression; the relatively 

 permanent pleasure which gives us the sense of 

 beauty being the most stable characteristic of 

 those parts of the field of impression which inter- 

 est us." He proposes the following scheme 



THE REAL 



or 



THE TRUE 



(in the broad 



sense of the 



term). 



The Real of Impression 

 The Beautiful. 



The Real of Expression 

 The Good 



The Real in Realms exclu- 

 sive of a and /3 The True 

 (in the narrower sense of 

 the term). 



MAN'S EMOTIONAL RELATION TO NATURE. 

 It is part of "man's chief end" not only to know 

 Nature which is Science, but to enjoy her for 

 ever. We are men of feeling, and Nature speaks 

 to our heart, though we are not fond, unless we 



