Finch, agent Starling

 It is not for all men to practice a science and advance it. But its gifts are gratuitous and there is no one who need go in want of them, nor anyone who may scorn them wholly and call himself modern.  For it speaks the universal language. Where it turns its gaze it puts a new dimension in the scene, deepening it with marvelous perspective. This science, this cool way of looking into vast spaces carried away a mind that had been encouraged so far chiefly to institutional judgments and emotional understandings. It was all too easy to have opinions on books, music, architecture. But appreciation is an edge that dulls with repetition; emotion is inconstant. Science has no use for any of this; it requires instead a bracing impartiality.  - George Finch