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Physical science may know all about his clutching 

 the fruit and munching it and digesting it, and 

 how the physical titillation of his palate is trans- 

 mitted to some microscopic cells of the grey mat- 

 ter of his brain. But the feelings of sweetness 

 and of satisfaction which, for a moment, hang 

 out their signal lights in his melancholy eyes, are 

 as utterly outside the bounds of physics as is the 

 " fine frenzy " of a human rhapsodist. 



Does Mr. Lilly really believe that, putting me 

 aside, there is any man with the feeling of music 

 in him who disbelieves in the reality of the delight 

 which he derives from it, because that delight 

 lies outside the bounds of physical science, not less 

 than outside the region of the mere sense of hear- 

 ing? But, it may be, that he includes music, 

 painting, and sculpture under the head of physical 

 science, and in that case I can only regret I am 

 unable to follow him in his ennoblement of my 

 favourite pursuits. 



The third thesis runs that I put aside " as un- 

 verifiable " " everything which cannot be brought 

 into a laboratory and dealt with chemically "; and, 

 once more, I say No. This wondrous allegation 

 is no novelty; it has not unfrequently reached 

 me from that region where gentle (or ungentle) 

 dulness so often holds unchecked sway — the pul- 

 pit. But I marvel to find that a writer of Mr. 

 Lilly's intelligence and good faith is willing to 

 father such a wastrel. If I am to deal with the 



