264 BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN PROBLEMS 



as a side growth or sub art of painting. Being a 

 recent phase of art, dating back in reality only to the 

 time of Constable, it might perhaps be thought to 

 stand for the most modern Platonic and loftiest 

 expression of the painter. But the beautiful in 

 landscape, whatever it may possess in charm, refine- 

 ment, and suggestiveness, must always make a rela- 

 tively limited appeal to the imagination, and in 

 power to arouse emotion and passion must fall far 

 below the art that utilizes the sex charm of the 

 human face and figure. And it seems safe to predict 

 that the future, as well as the present, belongs to that 

 aspect of pictorial art which is most closely in accord 

 with the most powerful stream of biological tendency 

 that which arouses the deepest feelings of sym- 

 pathy through the subtle channels of a refined sex 

 instinct, blended with more intellectual appeals 

 made to instincts that have their roots in the somatic 

 life. 



Aside from its connection with architecture, sculp- 

 ture seems not likely to exert a wide influence on 

 humanity, owing to the limitations belonging to its 

 medium of expression which brings a certain coldness 

 into its appeal. In architecture, on the other hand, 

 we have an art susceptible of wide development and 

 influence, where once its possibilities are appreciated 

 and its principles have been learned. It is an art 

 which has greatly suffered through the practical 

 needs which it subserves. People can live without 

 paintings and music, but are compelled to erect 



