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The first brilliant scientific endeavor in the history of civilization was made by the primitive man who first thought of hitting a beast using a piece of raw stone and did it. As the true father of science, he gave this epoch-making performance motivated by the mere "animal impulse to want to stay alive. Ever since, scientific endeavors and related accomplishments have included the invention and making of the various weapons (from the arrow, spear, to the modern gun). On the other front, scientific endeavors have been made to lead to accomplishments ranging from the first success story in planting wild plants for food to the production of chemical fertilizers in modern times by a great many means: from wooden tools to machines designed by the computer and turned out automatically.
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What have we achieved by means of science over all these thousands of years? We first succeeded in making us safe from other animals, then succeeded in preventing ourselves from being destroyed by hunger, cold, and other natural elements, and still then in making our fleshly bodies increasingly comfortable. In one short sentence; The total scientific accomplishments, originating in the common animal impulse, have caused MAN to survive hardships and dangers from both nature and other animals and to further grow into a super animal that is relatively safe.
However, unlike scientific endeavors, artistic activities reflect the human concern about and the interest in their own mind and soul.The human beings have been having their dances ever since they danced around a fire and after a good meal made up of meat of wild animals and fruits of wild plants. They have been painting since the same time, using chalks of colored earth, on the walls of rocks. Over these thousands of years, the human beings have changed their art forms (from rock-wall painting to the very modernistic art), enlarged their pleasures there from, and enhanced their related ideas, but their concern and interest have remained the same, and their artistic creations have persisted in the same spirit; Man should be so special an animal that he is largely different from the animal, which is bodily-pleasure-concerned, and bodily-pleasure-seeking.
And we have had such a special animal in many an artist. They are called stubborn animals that never will change their ideas about art (such as arts for art's sake); they are called foolish animals because they would rather be "poor" than give up their way of artistic creation; sometimes they are considered "dangerous" animals and therefore are suppressed by their fellow-animals. But they consider themselves, simply, nurses that carefully at-tend to the human mind and soul. And their artistic creations reflect this noble concern and attention; Art should be of the human soul, for the human soul, and by the human soul.
Along with the various scientific accomplishments, such artistic creations have gone into every lasting civilization. They represent two types of human endeavors and accomplishments; scientific and humanistic. They are both important; the one contributes to the survival of Man as a physically living being, the other helps make Man mentally healthy, in addition to being physically living; or, in other words, make it truly human. If a civilization is in any way significant or truly valuable, such "value" should be found in both its artistic creations and scientific accomplishments.
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