And if we study this seriously and sympathetically, we shall soon come to a conclusion.

It is a gross and complete slander upon Browning to say that his processes of thought are scientific in their precision and analysis.
They are nothing of the sort; if they were, Browning could not be a good poet.

The critic speaks of the conclusions of a poem as "transcendental and inept"; but the conclusions of a poem, if they are not transcendental, must be inept.

Do the people who call one of Browning's poems scientific in its analysis realise the meaning of what they say?
One is tempted to think that they know a scientific analysis when they see it as little as they know a good poem.

The one supreme difference between the scientific method and the artistic method is, roughly speaking, simply this--that a scientific statement means the same thing wherever and whenever it is uttered, and that an artistic statement means something entirely different, according to the relation in which it stands to its surroundings.