We are in the habit, in common parlance, of making a distinction between the search after truth and the search after beauty, calling the one science and the other art.

Now while we are not slow to impute imagination to art, we are by no means so ready to appreciate its connection with science.

Yet contrary, perhaps, to exogeric ideas on the subject, it is science rather than art that demands imagination of her votaries.

Not that art may not involve the quality to a high degree, but that a high degree of art is quite compatible with a very small amount of imagination.

On the one side we may instance painting.