The thought which analyses has the same deficiencies as our eyes.

It can fix only one point at a time.

It is necessary for it to examine each element of consideration, and unite it to others, to make a whole.

But the _logic of free life, which is the logic of art_, is like that logic of one using the eye, in which we make most wonderful combinations of momentary adaptation, by co-ordinating innumerable memories, by rejecting those that are useless or antagonistic; and all without being aware of it, so that those especially who most use the eye, as, for instance, the painter or the hunter, are unaware of more than one single, instantaneous action." This is a very happy formulation of a fundamental principle in art; indeed, it brings before us the essential quality of art, its illustration of thought in the order not of a formal logic, but of the logic of free life.

It is at this point that it is differentiated from philosophy; it is from this point that its immense spiritual significance becomes clear.