[Footnote 2: It may be urged that diversities of opinion exist as to what good is. The convenience of the words "good" and "evil" corresponds to a need created by a common experience in the same way as the convenience of the words "light" and "darkness" does. A child might consider that a diamond generated light in the same way as a candle does. He would be mistaken, but this would not affect the correctness of his application of the word "light" to his experience; if he confused light with darkness he must immediately become unintelligible. Good and light are perceived and named--no one can say more of them; the effects of both may be described with more or less accuracy. To say that light is a mode of motion does not define it; we ask at once, What mode? And the only answer is, that which produces the effect of light. A man born blind, though he knew what was meant by motion, could never deduce from this knowledge a conception of light.] [Footnote 3: The Monthly Review, October 1902, "Rodin."] [Footnote 4: "Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer," p. 177.] [Footnote 5: Ibid. p. 247.] [Footnote 6: "Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer," p. 252.] [Footnote 7: "Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer," pp, 244 and 245.] [Footnote 8: "Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer," p. 180.] [Footnote 9: The Monthly Review, April 1901, "In Defence of Reynolds."] [Footnote 10: Sixth Discourse.] CHAPTER II THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION ON THE CREATIVE IMPULSE I There are some artists of whom one would naturally write in a lyrical strain, with praise of the flesh, and those things which add to its beauty, freshness, and mystery--fair scenes of mountain, woodland, or sea-shore; blue sky, white cloud and sunlight, or the deep and starry night; youth and health, strength and fertility, frankness and freedom. And, in such a strain, one would insist that the fondness and intoxication which these things quicken was natural, wise, and lovely. But, quite as naturally, when one has to speak of Dürer, the mind becomes filled with the exhilaration and the staidness that the desire to know and the desire to act rightly beget; with the dignity of conscious comprehension, the serenity of accomplished duty with all the strenuousness and ardour of which the soul is capable; with science and religion.