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what the eye sees, but to conceive through insight, the greatest value possible to the visual world and to the inner world of feelings and affinities.

In the career and character of John Roebling, the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, we find not only a brilliant engineer but also, [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] as with Leonardo, a man of vision and profound humanity. Roebling's daring solution to a problem in human communication, carried out with a relatively new technology in steel wire, was even more astonishing in that it was instantly recognized as a work of art. After all, art is a process that renders phenomena into style, which is a humanizing process. Consider how different was Roebling's intention of contributing so handsomely to a practical need, from those who constantly and hideously scar and pollute our earth, so that the land, the sea, and the air, is so out of balance that scientists tell us that if the devastation continues we shall have passed the threshold of an endangered species and enter the waste land for good.

The Brooklyn Bridge has inspired people in many ways. For a number of New Yorkers the sight of the bridge in its serene simplicity presiding majestically over the entrance to the East River has been a delight. To the poet Hart Crane, the bridge symbolized a pathway joining the America of today with its past. It was also an inspiration for a series of memorable painting by the late Joseph Stella. Both Crane and Stella, represent the quest of some artists to find in technology a subject matter they felt was in tune with the dynamic spirit of America.

 While it would be a poor scientists, or technologist, or artists, who would wish to see science and the arts subordinated to another kind of method, it is true that artists have been indebted to what I have already indicated are kindred disciplines. The chemist has greatly increased