128 NATURE AND LIFE. 



link, range, and embrace them in their wonderfully complex 

 unity will render a great service to science and to art. 

 He will not, make the artist an automaton, nor prove man 

 the copy of a plant, drawing all its virtues from the soil it 

 springs in, but he will lay his hand upon the mechanism, 

 as yet scarcely guessed, moving a whole system of mighty 

 combinations of energy. 



