‘The sum of all the parts of Such –
Of each laboratory scene –
Is Such.’ While Science means this much
And means no more, why, let it mean!

But were the science-men to find
Some animating principle
Which gave synthetic Such a mind
Vital, though metaphysical –

To Such, such an event, I think
Would cause unscientific pain:
Science, appalled by thought, would shrink
To its component parts again.