190 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE 



"Over his head were the maple buds, 

 And over the tree was the moon, 

 And over the moon were the starry studs 

 That drop from the angels' shoon." 



Our general position is a very simple one. We 

 are enthusiastic believers in the value of Science 

 in furnishing descriptive formulae which facili- 

 tate both our intellectual and our practical grasp 

 of Nature. But we do not feel that the general- 

 izations of Science are by themselves satisfying 

 to us. Rightly or wrongly we share the ordinary 

 human longing for explanations, and we are not 

 affected by being told that it is an unhealthy 

 appetite. We believe that nature-poetry and 

 religious feeling are alike complementary to 

 Science. Both aim at getting beyond Science by 

 other methods, intuitive and instinctive rather 

 than intellectual and we do not think that they 

 fail. 



SUMMARY. There are three relations between 

 Science and Art: (1) there is a scientific study of 

 (esthetics; (2) Science has enormous stores of what 

 may be called the raw materials of Art; and (3) 

 there is an interesting psychological opposition 

 between the two moods. ^Esthetics is a psychological 

 science which inquires into the characteristics of 

 that familiar experience which we catt enjoying 

 Nature or Art, and of the rarer experience of pro- 



