[CHAPTER II.]

ON THE NEED OF A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.

"Art,—which I may style the love of loving, rage

Of knowing, seeing, feeling the absolute truth of things

For truth's sake, whole and sole, not any good, truth brings

The knower, seer, feeler, beside,—instinctive Art

Must fumble for the whole, once fixing on a part

However poor, surpass the fragment, and aspire

To reconstruct thereby the ultimate entire." A