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seek satisfaction in religious belief. For that scientific know- 

 ledge which is adequate to the demands of the intellect cannot 

 satisfy in a Hke manner the demands of the emotional nature ; 

 and in asserting the rights of the intellect at the expense of the 

 rights of the emotional nature, as Rationalism does, we are 

 arbitrarily Umiting the expansion of human life ; for we are 

 seeking to nourish the emotional nature of man with food un- 

 suited to its wants, thus leaving its hunger unsatisfied. And as 

 every desire which is unsatisfied implies a state of positive 

 sufiering, we are condemning humanity to remain in a condition 

 of sufiering, produced by the non-satisfaction of its emotional 

 wants. We forget that science corresponds to the intellectual 

 nature of man ; but when this intellectual nature has been 

 satisfied, there remain the vast and unfathomed depths of the 

 emotional nature, of the " inner hfe," with its hopes and fears, 

 and joys and sufEerings, and passions and aspirations. And 

 in order to complete the expansion of life, we must gratify the 

 desire for expansion of the " inner life," even as we have gratified 

 that of the intellect. Those scientific constructions of the 

 intellect, which respond to the need for intellectual expansion, 

 must be superimposed on that rehgious belief which corre- 

 sponds to the need for emotional expansion.'- 



1 In connection with what we have said concerning the role of the 

 emotional nature in life, we may recall the eloquent things which Schopen- 

 hauer has written concerning the " intimate essence of art," and the " meta- 

 physics of music." " Everything which is produced spontaneously," 

 wrote Schopenhauer, " for instance — the sketch traced as if unconsciously 

 by the poet in the fire of the first conception ; the melody suggested to us 

 solely by inspiration, without the aid of reflection ; finally, lyrical poetry 

 properly so called, the simple song, in which the actual disposition of the 

 mind, profoundly felt, and the impression of the present surroundings, are 

 made manifest in verses of which the rhythm and the rhyme come about 

 of themselves — all these productions, I say, have the great advantage of 

 being the pure work of the enthusiasm of the moment, of the inspiration 

 and unfettered stimulus of genius, without any mixture either of reflec- 

 tion or intention. This is the reason of their deUoious flavour of ripe 

 fruit ; this is the reason why their effect is infinitely greater than that of 



