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the raw materials of poetry, and a continual 

 reinvigoration of those primary and fundamental 

 Nature impressions without which we cannot 

 really make our heritage our own. And when 

 what Science gives us is transfigured by Art, 

 then if we may wrest a little the words of an 

 artistic genius: "The very aspect of the world 

 will change to our startled eyes. . . . Dragons 

 will wander about in waste places, and the phoe- 

 nix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. 

 We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk and see 

 the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his 

 gilded oats, the hippogriff will stand in our stalls, 

 and over our heads will float the blue-bird singing 

 of beautiful and impossible things, of things that 

 are lovely and that never happen, of things that 

 are not and that should be." 



OPPOSITION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FEELING. 

 We have been trying to suggest, indirectly 

 rather than formally, that Science and Art are 

 complementary. Science has a great deal to offer 

 to Art in the way of raw materials, and these 

 of a kind that Art is ennobled in working with 

 them. On the other hand, Science is cold with- 

 out Art. But while this is so, it cannot be denied 

 that the artistic and the scientific mood are 

 in some measure opposed. There is an antithesis 

 which easily becomes an antipathy between 

 them. The reason for this is obvious: Science 



