In the 19th century, the marvelous developments of science produced a revolution in the habits, practices, and interests of the entire civilized world. We know that the essence of science is method, a way of approach to everything that touches our interest as human beings. The method of science applied to religion, art, social life, politics has shown that all of these great forces owe their very existence to the fact that they satisfy various instinctive wants common to all mankind. Scientific method has established beyond doubt that what gives Giotto, Rembrandt, and Titian their permanent appeal is not the subject matter of their work, but a form, which has its own identity, a form created out of the use of the same elements, namely, line, light, color, and space.
By the same token, the great literature of the pastΓÇöthe Psalms, the Homeric poems, the plays of ShakespeareΓÇö
has survived because each phase has its own particular form constructed of elements common to all, that is, words,
