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3 In the course of fourteen short chapters, Dr. Sanjeevi takes the reader step by step, from the more familiar to the less, from the less diffi:ult to the more, till at last he is led to the heart of the mystery in almost the last pages of the book. Twain are cur eyes; they can see separately, yet usually they focus together. They give us the near vision, enabling us to see the microscopic, and the far vision too, revealing the distant stars and the Milky Way It would be strange if this inbuilt resilience and range of apprehension were not mean, to be exercised in other fields as weli. Dr. Sanjeevi rightly describes Thought and Feeling - Science and the Humanities-Know.edge and Art—as mankind's two eyes. The human intellect, in its desperate attempt to seize and size up the universe, employs the strategies of classification and quantification. Books are no doubt the store houses of knowledge, but one needs the right keys – and passwords — to unlock the treasuries. Science gives us news or knowledge of the phenomenal world, but art touches it up with feeling's warmth and imagination's glow. Poetry is not to be dismissed as mere “imitation”, as something second-hand and hence expendable. Actually, the “iie” of poetry is Truth doubled with Feeling and Form. If there is a grammar of literary art made up of crthography, phorology, sem antics, prosody and rhetoric, othere is also the complementary grammar of human life made up of politics, economics, sociology, aesthetics and moral science; and it is most gratifying that the literature of knowledge in Tamil has been of late growing these dimensions as well. The classical Tamil kategories of aham-puram and aram-potuł-inbam-veedu may thus be seen to acquire new formulations in the modern context.While the images of literature seem to be “fiction”, they are “Supreme fiction” (as Wallace Stevens calls them), or, as Dr. Sanjeevi suggestively remarks 多