He loves the mysterious for the beauty of it, the wildness and the glory of it, and not always to compel stiff-necked people to do right.
It seems to me that the scientific and poetic functions of society should make common cause again, if they are not, as in Merlin's time, combined in one personality.

They must recognize that they serve the same society, but with the understanding that the prophetic function is the most important, the wizard vocation the next, and the inventors' and realists' genius important indeed, but the third consideration.

The war between the scientists and the prophet-wizards has come about because of the half-defined ambition of the scientists to rule or ruin.

They give us the steam-engine, the skyscraper, the steam-heat, the flying machine, the elevated railroad, the apartment house, the newspaper, the breakfast food, the weapons of the army, the weapons of the navy, and think that they have beautified our existence.
Moreover some one rises at this point to make a plea for the scientific imagination.

He says the inventor-scientists have brought us the mystery of electricity, which is no hocus-pocus, but a special manifestation of the Immanent God within us and about us.