"But art, -- science! You repudiate art and science; that is, you repudiate that by which mankind lives! " People are constantly making this -- it is not a reply -- to me, and they employ this mode of reception in order to reject my deductions without examining into them. "He repudiates science and art, he wants to send people back again into a savage state; so what is the use of listening to him and of talking to him? " But this is unjust. I not only do not repudiate art and science, but, in the name of that which is true art and true science, I say that which I do say; merely in order that mankind may emerge from that savage state into which it will speedily fall, thanks to the erroneous teaching of our time, -- only for this purpose do I say that which I say.
Art and science are as indispensable as food and drink and clothing, -- more indispensable even; but they become so, not because we decide that what we designate as art and science are indispensable, but simply because they really are indispensable to people.
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