GOETHE, one of the greatest poets mankind has ever had, often ridiculed theory and speculation. "Gray, my friend, is all your theory", and you know well the passage where he says: "a man to speculation bound is like a senseless beast upon a barren heath by evil spirit led in circles round and round…" I am of the opinion that he, and with him all poets and perhaps all women, who generally think like poets, is right when he rejects exaggerating theoretical thinking. For man does not merely contemplate reality. He not only sees it, he also evaluates it; he finds this reality agreeable or hateful, good or evil, pleasant or unpleasant, noble or common, sacred or profane and so on. We are so made that we can rise to a purely observant attitude only by great effort and then only in rare moments. By and large, our life is determined by evaluating and values.