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The Soul of the Far East

CHAPTER 5
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In the second place, there is an essential difference in the attitude of the two subjects upon personality.

Emotionally, 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.


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