SCIF.XCR y\ND CULTURE 2.5 



her power of improvement except by remain- 

 ing substantially united to that spirit and ac- 

 tivity. "Separate words from the mind 

 which expresses itself in them," said Plato, 

 "and then ask them what they mean: they will 

 keep solemnly silent," ae^ivox^ irdw criya . Sci- 

 ence can no more do without spirit than the 

 colors produced by the reflection of light can 

 exist without the sun. 



But if science, far from absorbing spirit and 

 reducing it to the mechanism she constructs, 

 depends as a matter of fact eternally on spirit, 

 as the leaves and the flowers depend on the 

 tree, it is of the greatest interest to science 

 that spirit should receive the culture which is 

 appropriate, the culture which best assures 

 the health, the vigor, the fecundity of spirit. 



That culture, however, of which science is 

 at once the aim and the measure — is it suffi- 

 cient for our needs? 



The scientific faculty is not the only one 

 which is essential for us. We find also in our- 

 selves other ruling faculties: the practical, the 

 artistic, the religious faculty. 



If our spirit is really in itself a being, a 



