The World we see and the World we want

“…We tend to think of the sciences as intellectual and the arts as emotional: one starts with the world as it is, the other with the world we want to have.” (p.9)

I think what Frye is trying to say here is that we think of sciences as intellectual because it already exists and gives us the world that we see in front of us today. All we have to do is “accept the data and try to explain the laws” of science which demonstrates intellect. Art, we see as emotional because it has to do with what we think and what we want to see and feel which can be portrayed through writing, painting music etc. It begins with the imagination and wanting it which eventually leads to experience. I agree with Frye because it is how society views science and art due to the facts, which we have regarding science, and the need for something new allowing our imagination to create new things. I think there is a connection to McCullough’s speech because he tells the graduates to read and to learn but also to travel and see and live every day of their life. McCullough makes some connections to this because he wants the graduates to know that you can be intellectual not only regarding science because you can read other things and experience emotions and we can see the world as it is and as we want it.