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 esthetic 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 literature 
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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