Every thing has been excellently inculcated; but there is one
objection,--that no one except ourselves can understand any thing of
it, and all this is reckoned as utterly useless nonsense. However,
there is an explanation even for this. People do not appreciate the
full value of scientific science, because they are under the
influence of the theological period, that profound period when all
the people, both among the Hebrews, and the Chinese, and the
Indians, and the Greeks, understood every thing that their great
teachers said to them.

But, from whatever cause this has come about, the fact remains, that
sciences and arts have always existed among mankind, and, when they
really did exist, they were useful and intelligible to all the
people. But we practise something which we call science and art,
but it appears that what we do is unnecessary and unintelligible to
man. And hence, however beautiful may be the things that we
accomplish, we have no right to call them arts and sciences.



CHAPTER VI.



"But you only furnish a different definition of arts and sciences,
which is stricter, and is incompatible with science," I shall be
told in answer to this; "nevertheless, scientific and artistic
activity does still exist. There are the Galileos, Brunos, Homers,
Michael Angelos, Beethovens, and all the lesser learned men and
artists, who have consecrated their entire lives to the service of