 The poetic and the evaluative may appear resolutely old-fashioned in a cold, utilitarian universe. But it names precisely an impulse of human knowers that can never be replaced, supplanted or repressed. Practically speaking, we are value-finding beings. We will continue to utter such strange and human constructions as “the sun is coming up” or “it was a very fine day,” for our world is both poetry and prose. And it can never be simply one or the other for human existence.