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.