SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IN ART 363 
In the Eternal City built on Seven Hills there is a piazza 
from which three streets lead into different districts of the 
city. This great piazza, with its open gate and plashing foun¬ 
tain, is the expression of the reality forced upon us by scien¬ 
tific thought, and the wearied pedestrian, who cannot rest here, 
must decide which of the three streets he will follow. Who can 
say by what accident his steps may be turned to the way which 
Renoir has depicted, or to the flower-strewn path of Sisley, 
or to the embrace of dogma? Each one of these three vias 
leads across Rome, and at a life’s close, when standing on the 
walls of that city, and the hour for the fatal plunge into the 
moat has come, who can say, but the soul alone, if the choice 
has been well? 
