I am afraid that at our last conversation I rather spoke to you "as if
you were a public meeting." Not precisely in that manner, perhaps, since
no public meeting that I can imagine would have stood me for a moment,
but I fear that I was what is called "high-flown." And yet how can one
avoid that reproach? Look here: let us suppose an examination paper, and
the following questions set.
1. Explain, in rational terms, the "Quest of the Holy Graal." State
whether in your opinion such a vessel ever existed, and if you think it
did not, justify your pleasure in reading the account of the search for
it.
2. Explain, logically, your delight in colour. State, in terms that
Voltaire would have understood, the meaning of the phrase, "the beauty
of line."
3. What do you mean by the word "music"? Give the rational explanation
of Bach's Fugues, showing them to be as (1) true as Biology and (2)
useful as Applied Mechanics.