CHAPTER V.



"But art,--science! You repudiate art and science; that is, you
repudiate that by which mankind lives!" People are constantly
making this--it is not a reply--to me, and they employ this mode of
reception in order to reject my deductions without examining into
them. "He repudiates science and art, he wants to send people back
again into a savage state; so what is the use of listening to him
and of talking to him?" But this is unjust. I not only do not
repudiate art and science, but, in the name of that which is true
art and true science, I say that which I do say; merely in order
that mankind may emerge from that savage state into which it will
speedily fall, thanks to the erroneous teaching of our time,--only
for this purpose do I say that which I say.

Art and science are as indispensable as food and drink and
clothing,--more indispensable even; but they become so, not because
we decide that what we designate as art and science are
indispensable, but simply because they really are indispensable to
people.

Surely, if hay is prepared for the bodily nourishment of men, the
fact that we are convinced that hay is the proper food for man will
not make hay the food of man. Surely I cannot say, "Why do not you
eat hay, when it is the indispensable food?" Food is indispensable,
but it may happen that that which I offer is not food at all. This
same thing has occurred with our art and science. It seems to us,
that if we add to a Greek word the word "logy," and call that a