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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: science appeals to nobody, art to everybody. Now the emotions
constitute the larger part of that complex bundle of ideas which we
know as self. A thought which is not tinged to some extent with
feeling is not only not personal; properly speaking, it is not even
distinctively human, but cosmical. In its lofty superiority to man,
science is unpersonal rather than impersonal. Art, on the other hand,
is a familiar spirit. Through the windows of the senses she finds
her way into the very soul of man, and makes for herself a home there.
But it is to his humanity, not to his individuality, that she
whispers, for she speaks in that universal tongue which all can
understand.
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