It is the birthright of the Far East, the talent it never hides.

Throughout the length and breadth of the land, and from the highest prince to the humblest peasant, art reigns supreme.
Now such a prevalence of artistic feeling implies of itself impersonality in the people.

At first sight it might seem as if science did the same, and that in this respect the one hemisphere offset the other, and that consequently both should be equally impersonal.

But in the first place, our masses are not imbued with the scientific spirit, as theirs are with artistic sensibility.

Who would expect of a mason an impersonal interest in the principles of the arch, or of a plumber a non-financial devotion to hydraulics?
Certainly one would be wrong in crediting the masses in general or European waiters in particular with much abstract love of mathematics, for example.