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been ages of sentiment ; the great literatures are the 

 embodiments of sentiment. Patriotism is a senti- 

 ment ; love, benevolence, admiration, worship, are 

 all sentiments. 



Man is a creature of emotions, of attractions, and 

 intuitions, as well as of reason and calculation. 

 Science cannot deepen your love of country, or of 

 home and family, or of honor or purity, or enhance 

 your enjoyment of a great poem or work of art, or 

 of an heroic act, or of the beauty of nature, or 

 quicken your religious impulses. To know is less 

 than to love ; to know the reason of things is less 

 than to be quick to the call of duty. Unless we 

 approach the Bible, or any of the sacred books of 

 antiquity, or the great poems, or nature itself, — a 

 bird, a flower, a tree, — in other than the scientific 

 spirit, the spirit whose aim is to express all values 

 in the terms of the reason or the understanding, we 

 shall miss the greatest good they hold for us. We 

 are not to approach them in a spirit hostile to 

 science, but with a willingness to accept what 

 science can give, but knowing full well that there is 

 a joy in things and an insight into them which 

 science can never give. There is probably nothing 

 in the Sermon on the Mount that appeals to our 

 scientific faculties, yet there are things here by 

 reason of which the world is vastly the gainer. 

 Indeed, nearly all the recorded utterances of Jesus 

 rise into regions where science cannot foUow. 

 " Take no thought of the body." " He that would 

 save his life shall lose it." " Except ye become as 



