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sympathize less. Unless, indeed, we finally come 

 to see, as we probably shall, that after science has 

 done its best the mystery is as great as ever, and the 

 imagination and the emotions have just as free a 

 field as before. 



Science and literature in their aims and methods 

 have but little in common. Demonstrable fact is 

 the province of the one; sentiment is the province 

 of the other. "The more a book brings sentiment 

 into light," says M. Taine, "the more it is a work 

 of literature ; " and, we may add, the more it brings 

 the facts and laws of natural things to light, the 

 more it is a work of science. Or, as Emerson says 

 in one of his early essays, "literature afi'ords a plat- 

 form whence we may command a view of our pres- 

 ent life, a purchase by which we may move it. " In 

 like manner science affords a platform whence we 

 may view our physical existence, — a purchase by 

 which we may move the material world. The value 

 of the one is in its ideality, that of the other in its 

 exact demonstrations. The knowledge which liter- 

 ature most loves and treasures is knowledge of life; 

 while science is intent upon a knowledge of things, 

 not as they are ia their relation to the mind and 

 heart of man, but as they are in and of themselves, 

 in their relations to each other and to the human 

 body. Science is a capital or fund perpetually re- 

 invested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward 

 by every new man. Every man of science has all 

 the science before him to go upon, to set himself 

 up in business with. What an enormous sum Dar- 



