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aims at being unemotional and impersonal; Art 

 is intrinsically emotional and personal. 



We have spoken of the pleasure which Man has 

 in the contemplation and study of Nature, but 

 it must be granted that the scientific mood often 

 intrudes on our delight, elbowing us away from 

 the emotional window. Yet the end is always 

 that the window is widened. Darwin once ex- 

 pressed the delight he had when on a rare occa- 

 sion he surrendered himself under the trees to 

 the child's pleasure of just watching the birds 

 and insects and all the rest, without vexing him- 

 self for once over the problems of origin. But how 

 he has widened the emotional window for man- 

 kind, for all who feel the grandeur of the evolu- 

 tion-idea! 



Keats could not forgive Newton for robbing 

 mankind of the wonder of the rainbow, but 

 when minor mysteries disappear, greater mysteries 

 stand confessed. Science never destroys wonder, 

 but only shifts it, higher and deeper. When the 

 half-Gods go, the Gods arrive, to the aesthetic 

 as well as to the religious mood. For it is our 

 experience that there is always something finer, 

 higher, grander than we saw at first. Should 

 we not get back oftener to the emotional reali- 

 zation of height above height, which is expressed 

 in Emerson's picture of the little child looking 

 up through the maple branches? 



