Awe of Art

Oscar Wilde a true scientist applies the laws of science to art, a previously unheard of method. Earnest questions Gilbert with how great art can be the result of a single man rather than the result of the whole, “imagination of races, rather than of the imagination of individuals?” Gilbert replies that the man discovering the ideals and writing them down defines the art. A concept held true in science, the finder receives the praise for the findings. Biological mechanisms in all science fields have existed for centuries in the art form that is life. Complexity explained, the spin, or future direction that experimental findings have really is criticism. What is the greatest of all art? Gilbert suggests the answer in his lines, “If we live long enough to see the results of our actions… Each little thing we do passes into the greater machine of life, which may grind our virtue to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.” These thoughts are an exact definition of evolution and the processes of natural selection. Gilbert lays down ideas that set science as the last true art that can be developed and its writings, critiques, the methods by which man enlightens others to the complexities of things that have been in existent since the beginning of the species.

“To create a new world that common eyes look upon, and through which common nature seeks to relies their perfection,” is the study of life and life-like processes. To sit in awe at the complexity that defines man, his being, and coming of existence takes great thought and criticism to discover and quite possibly the last true art form in existence. Science does suggest a fresh departure of thought, passion, and beauty. The illusions of the dreamer the man that discovers the pathways to science and understands its action is a true artist.

The fundamental question then arises, is the illusionist greater than the creator?