UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 



Being a poet, he must live in the world of the emo- 

 tions, the intuitions, the imagination, — the world 

 of love, fellowship, beauty, religion, the super- 

 scientific world. As practical beings with need of 

 food, shelter, transportation, we have to deal with 

 the facts within the sphere of physical science; as 

 social, moral, and aesthetic beings, we live in the 

 super-scientific world. Our house of life has upper 

 stories that look off to the sky and the stars. We are 

 less as men than our fathers, have less power of 

 character, but are more as tools and vehicles of the 

 scientific intellect. 



Man lives in his emotions, his hopes and fears, his 

 loves and sympathies, his predilections and his affin- 

 ities, more than in his reason. Hence, as we have 

 more and more science, we must have less and less 

 great literature; less and less religion; less and less 

 superstition, and should have less and less racial 

 and political antagonisms, and more and more free- 

 dom and fellowship in all fields and with all peoples. 

 Science tends to unify the nations and make one 

 family of them. 



The antique world produced great literature and 

 great art, but much of its science was childish. We 

 produce great science, but much of our Kterature 

 and art is feeble and imitative. 



Science, as such, neither fears, nor dreads, nor 

 wonders, nor trembles, nor scoffs, nor scorns; is not 

 puffed up; thinketh no evil; has no prejudices; turns 

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