﻿LECTUKE 
  I. 
  

  

  THE 
  UNFATHOMED 
  UNIVERSE 
  AND 
  THE 
  

  

  AIM 
  OF 
  SCIENCE. 
  

  

  1. 
  Man's 
  Early 
  Outlook 
  on 
  Nature. 
  2. 
  Growing 
  Recognition 
  

   of 
  a 
  Scientific 
  Order. 
  3. 
  Aims 
  of 
  Science. 
  4. 
  Limita- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  Natural 
  Knowledge. 
  5. 
  The 
  Function 
  of 
  Feeling 
  in 
  

   our 
  View 
  of 
  Nature. 
  6. 
  Towards 
  a 
  Philosophical 
  Inter- 
  

   pretation 
  of 
  Nature. 
  7. 
  Science 
  and 
  Religion. 
  

  

  1. 
  Mans 
  Early 
  Outlook 
  on 
  Nature. 
  

  

  IN 
  early 
  days 
  men 
  must 
  have 
  looked 
  somewhat 
  dis- 
  

   tractedly 
  and 
  uncomprehendingly 
  on 
  the 
  crowded 
  world 
  

   without, 
  discerning 
  only 
  glimpses 
  of 
  order 
  amid 
  the 
  hig 
  

   booming 
  confusion. 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  ring 
  of 
  truth 
  in 
  the 
  fine 
  

   description 
  ^Eschylus 
  gave, 
  that 
  " 
  first, 
  beholding 
  they 
  

   beheld 
  in 
  vain, 
  and, 
  hearing, 
  heard 
  not, 
  but 
  like 
  shapes 
  in 
  

   dreams, 
  mixed 
  all 
  things 
  wildly 
  down 
  the 
  tedious 
  time, 
  nor 
  

   knew 
  to 
  build 
  a 
  house 
  against 
  the 
  sun 
  with 
  wicketed 
  sides, 
  

   nor 
  any 
  wood-work 
  knew, 
  but 
  lived 
  like 
  silly 
  ants, 
  beneath 
  

   the 
  ground, 
  in 
  hollow 
  caves 
  unsunned. 
  There 
  came 
  to 
  them 
  

   no 
  steadfast 
  sign 
  of 
  winter, 
  nor 
  of 
  spring 
  flower-perfumed, 
  

   nor 
  of 
  summer 
  full 
  of 
  fruit, 
  but 
  blindly 
  and 
  lawlessly 
  they 
  

   did 
  all 
  things." 
  

  

  Poincare 
  speaks 
  of 
  the 
  days 
  before 
  Man 
  learned 
  from 
  the 
  

   stars 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  reign 
  of 
  law. 
  " 
  Isolated 
  amidst 
  a 
  

   nature 
  where 
  everything 
  was 
  a 
  mystery 
  to 
  him, 
  terrified 
  at 
  

   each 
  unexpected 
  manifestation 
  of 
  incomprehensible 
  forces, 
  

   he 
  was 
  incapable 
  of 
  seeing 
  in 
  the 
  conduct 
  of 
  the 
  universe 
  

   anything 
  but 
  caprice' 
  (1913, 
  p. 
  290). 
  So 
  large 
  were 
  

  

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