128 NATURE AND LIFE. 
link, range, and embrace them in their wonderfully complex 
unity—will render a great service to science and to art. 
He will not make the artist an automaton, nor prove man 
the copy of a plant, drawing all its virtues from the soil it 
springs in, but he will lay his hand upon the mechanism, 
as yet scarcely guessed, moving a whole system of mighty 
combinations of energy. 

