UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 
philosophy clothe the bones with something analo- 
gous to flesh and blood and warmth and color. 
The sensitive, imaginative mind cares only for 
that scientific truth which points to something 
beyond science — to large, ideal views. Unless sci- 
ence makes the world more alive and significant 
to such a mind, unless its truths have ideal values 
and can in some measure be made into the bread of 
literature, it does not permanently interest it. The 
hard, literal facts of physical science, unless one can 
synthesize them and thus in a measure escape 
from them, are barren and tasteless to the artistic 
mind. 
In the great sciences, like astronomy and geology, 
one gets wholes; the imagination has play-room. 
The cosmic laws launch him upon a shoreless sea. 
One is blown upon by a breeze from eternity. The 
same with biology in the light of evolution. 
The humanistic view and the scientific view of the 
universe supplement each other; science corrects 
and guides sense, humanism enlarges and colors and 
vitalizes science. After science has unveiled the 
heavens, our human emotions play about them; 
after it has revealed to us the history of the earth 
and of man, emotion and imagination have fresh 
material to work upon. Science is exact fact; litera- 
ture is liberal truth. 
The universe of science is the real world; the 
union of literature and art shows what we make of 
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