Science and Expression 



field of effort. His mind is attuned to the 

 collection and assortment of precise items of 

 exact knowledge or phenomena upon which 

 he bases his dull hypotheses as to their 

 causes. And to a physiologist, as Miss 

 Cobbe once remarked, a bas-relief of a 

 centaur or a cherub must be absurd, because 

 the first must have two stomachs and the 

 second none at all. 



We can but record our sorrow for the 

 unhappy man to whom all the limitless glories 

 of painting that have transfigured Europe 

 from one end to the other make no appeal, 

 and register our protest against the desolat- 

 ing pursuits that have blinded his vision and 

 ossified his heart. 



In architecture it may be conceded that 

 Science is entitled to a slight participation as 

 a mechanical necessity. For architecture is 

 always in a measure a Science and only some- 

 times an art. It is always a Science, because 



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