UNDER THE APPLE-TREES 
great creative artist and inspired seer. Not intel- 
lectual analysis, but intellectual sympathy, gives 
him the key to the problem of life. Intuition is his 
method, which he opposes to the analytical method 
of science. 
Science sees the process of evolution from the out- 
side, as one might a train of cars going by, and re- 
solves it into the physical and mechanical elements, 
without getting any nearer the reason of its going 
by, or the point of its departure or destination. In- 
tuition seeks to put itself inside the process, and to 
go the whole way with it, witnessing its vicissitudes 
and viewing the world in the light of its mobility 
and in determinateness. 
All the engineering and architectural and me- 
chanical features of the railway and its train of 
coaches do not throw any light upon the real sig- 
nificance of railways. This significance must be 
looked for in the brains of the people inside the 
coaches and in the push of the civilization of which 
they are some of the expressions. In like manner 
when we have reduced biological processes to their 
mechanical and chemical equivalents, we are as far 
as ever from the true nature and significance of 
biology. 
Organic evolution is something more than an illus- 
tration of the working of the laws of dead matter. 
A living body is the sum of its physicochemical 
factors, plus something else. The dead automatic 
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