1. It pictures the aim and desire of our whole life.

b. The smallest thing can be as a universe in itself, if it be complete and harmonious, i.e., perfect:

1. A drop as well as a planet; a dog, in his way, as well as a man; a day as well as a century.

II. The Good, the True and the Beautiful Have the Same End, and Are Sought, Respectively, by Philosophy, Science and Art:

a. Philosophy seeks the whole at once, therefore can never reach that completeness.

b. Science seeks individual truths, not the moral truth, or aim:

1. Darwin, the philosophical scientist.

c. Art gives us that completeness, our aim, symbolized in a small and definite shape.

III. Genius is the Common Human Quality, Distinct from Talent:

a. The Genius differs not in kind, but in degree, from his fellows.