UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 



great creative artist and imspired seer. Not intel- 

 lectual analysis, but intellectual sympathy, gives 

 him the key to the problem of life. Intuition is his 

 method, which he opposes to the analytical method 

 of science. 



Science sees the process of evolution from the out- 

 side, as one might a train of cars going by, and re- 

 solves it into the physical and mechanical elements, 

 without getting any nearer the reason of its going 

 by, or the point of its departure or destination. In- 

 tuition seeks to put itself inside the process, and to 

 go the whole way with it, witnessing its vicissitudes 

 and viewing the world in the light of its mobility 

 and in determinateness. 



All the engineering and architectural and me- 

 chanical features of the railway and its train of 

 coaches do not throw any light upon the real sig- 

 nificance of railways. This significance must be 

 looked for in the brains of the people inside the 

 coaches and in the push of the civilization of which 

 they are some of the expressions. In like manner 

 when we have reduced biological processes to their 

 mechanical and chemical equivalents, we are as far 

 as ever from the true nature and significance of 

 biology. 



Organic evolution is something more than an illus- 

 tration of the working of the laws of dead matter. 

 A living body is the sum of its physicochemical 

 factors, plus something else. The dead automatic 



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