eer, because, as they truly say, it is out of drawing. The
implication is that to be correctly copied from a model is the
prerequisite of all beauty. Correctness is, indeed, an element of
effect and one which, in respect to familiar objects, is almost
indispensable, because its absence would cause a disappointment
and dissatisfaction incompatible with enjoyment. We learn to value
truth more and more as our love and knowledge of nature increase.
But fidelity is a merit only because it is in this way a factor in our
pleasure. It stands on a level with all other ingredients of effect.
When a man raises it to a solitary pre-eminence and becomes
incapable of appreciating anything else, he betrays the decay of
aesthetic capacity. The scientific habit in him inhibits the artistic.

That facts have a value of their own, at once complicates and
explains this question. We are naturally pleased by every
perception, and recognition and surprise are particularly acute
sensations. When we see a striking truth in any imitation, we are
therefore delighted, and this kind of pleasure is very legitimate,
and enters into the best effects of all the representative arts. Truth
and realism are therefore aesthetically good, but they are not
all-sufficient, since the representation of everything is not equally
pleasing and effective. The fact that resemblance is a source of
satisfaction justifies the critic in demanding it, while the aesthetic
insufficiency of such veracity shows the different value of truth in
science and in art. Science is the response to the demand for
information, and in it we ask for the whole truth and nothing but
the truth. Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for
the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into
it only as it subserves these ends.

Even the scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or
absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests.
As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts
by the painful process of selection, -- for intuition runs equally into
truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled
by experience, -- we gain vastly in our command over our
environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science, and
the fruit it is yielding in our day. We have no better vision of
nature and life than some of our predecessors, but we have greater
material resources. To know the truth about the composi