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than mine would not, I suppose, have thus suffered ; 

 and if I had to live my life again, I would have 

 made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some 

 poetry at least once every week, for perhaps the 

 parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have 

 been kept active through use. The loss of these 

 tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be 

 injurious to the intellect, and more probably to 

 the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional 

 part of our nature." 



There can be no doubt at all that an exclusive 

 devotion to any branch of science which deals ex- 

 clusively with limited areas of objective relation- 

 ships does damage, derange, and desiccate the 

 higher emotional faculties, and that the term " dry- 

 as-dust," so commonly applied to scientific men, is 

 not without its justification. Objective science, 

 starting from the false if convenient assumption of 

 objective existence, sees life only from certain 

 standpoints and certain sides ; and though it may 

 make pills or aeroplanes, it cannot of itself make 

 creeds ; and if it is to be a power in life outside the 

 workshop and laboratory, it must seek assistance 

 from its elder sisters, poetry and philosophy. A 

 very limited acquaintance with philosophy would 

 have saved Carl Vogt, for instance, from such an 

 absurd assertion as that the brain secretes thought 

 even as the liver secretes bile. 



