244 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



through the perfection of the living instruments 

 of force. The formative arts have been the chief 

 mediums through which this inspiration has been 

 interpreted. 



But the inspiration which underlies all the for- 

 ward movements in the civilization of our time, is 

 that of the triumph of the other-regarding emotions 

 through the belief that the life of the individual is 

 related to ends and principles which transcend in 

 importance every present interest in the world 

 around us. 



It is for this reason that the tendency in our 

 time is for the greatest art of the day to become 

 more and more what may be termed invisible art. 

 The highest art is, therefore, seeking to express 

 itself in the mediums through which the emotion 

 of the ideal, which, it must be remembered, is 

 itself the sum of the other-regarding emotions, 

 can be most profoundly influenced. These mediums 

 are not the formative arts. The chief vehicles of 

 this art have now become the word and the spirit, 

 and its highest expressions, as Sir Martin Conway 

 described, are in literature and similar mediums 

 through which the world is being powerfully moved. 

 Its exponents, therefore, are the master-minds of 

 literature the seers of the visions of the writers, 

 the poets, the reformers, the teachers who create 



