⁷⁴ Commenting on the rise of naturalism in all the arts in Europe in the later Middle Ages, one of this country's outstanding philosophers of science has observed:

" The whole atmosphere of every art exhigited direct joy in the apprehension of the things around us. The craftsmen who executed the later mediaeval decorative sculpture, Giotto, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, and at the present day the New England poet Robert Frost, are all akin to each other in this respect." (Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, 1926, p. 17)