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ductive artists. Man's emotional relation to Nature 

 is primal and fundamental. The fundamental and 

 ancient impressions are of the world-power, of the 

 immensities, of the pervading order, and of the 

 universal flux. To these modern science has added 

 impressions of manifoldness, intricacy, inter-related- 

 ness, and evolution. Nature is more than a mirror 

 of our moods; the fundamental impressions are 

 impersonal. While they have scientific validity, 

 they are hardly less important in supplying the 

 raw materials of poetry. Yet there is undoubted 

 opposition between the scientific and the artistic 

 mood; when either is in the saddle it must keep the 

 other at a spear's length. 



