﻿THE 
  UNFATHOMED 
  UNIVERSE 
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  The 
  scientific 
  order 
  has 
  grown 
  like 
  an 
  organism. 
  Its 
  

   methods 
  have 
  become 
  more 
  penetrating; 
  improvements 
  in 
  

   instruments 
  (such 
  as 
  telescope 
  and 
  microscope, 
  spectroscope 
  

   and 
  radioscope) 
  have 
  almost 
  meant 
  new 
  senses. 
  Its 
  stand- 
  

   ard 
  of 
  accuracy 
  has 
  heen 
  raised, 
  many 
  residual 
  phenomena 
  

   and 
  minute 
  discrepancies, 
  previously 
  neglected, 
  have 
  pointed 
  

   the 
  way 
  to 
  discoveries, 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  Argon. 
  Its 
  con- 
  

   cepts 
  have 
  been 
  periodically 
  thrown 
  into 
  the 
  crucible 
  of 
  

   criticism, 
  and 
  come 
  out 
  clearer, 
  or 
  not 
  at 
  all. 
  Thus 
  force, 
  

   instead 
  of 
  being 
  a 
  power 
  inherent 
  in 
  substances, 
  became 
  

   a 
  measure 
  of 
  the 
  rate 
  of 
  transference 
  of 
  energy, 
  and 
  heat 
  

   became 
  a 
  mode 
  of 
  motion. 
  Large 
  bodies 
  of 
  facts 
  which 
  

   used 
  to 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  beyond 
  science, 
  the 
  weather 
  and 
  

   dreams 
  for 
  instance, 
  have 
  become 
  amenable 
  to 
  scientific 
  treat- 
  

   ment. 
  

  

  The 
  progress 
  of 
  science 
  wrought 
  inevitable 
  changes 
  in 
  

   man's 
  outlook. 
  The 
  work 
  of 
  Copernicus 
  and 
  Galileo 
  shat- 
  

   tered 
  the 
  geocentric 
  theory, 
  which 
  made 
  our 
  Earth 
  the 
  centre 
  

   of 
  the 
  solar 
  system, 
  and 
  subsequent 
  discoveries 
  showed 
  what 
  

   a 
  small 
  corner 
  of 
  the 
  universe 
  our 
  whole 
  system 
  occupies. 
  

   Not 
  that 
  we 
  estimate 
  man's 
  kingdom 
  in 
  furlongs 
  ! 
  The 
  

   great 
  discoverers 
  in 
  astronomy, 
  physics, 
  and 
  chemistry 
  re- 
  

   vealed 
  more 
  and 
  more 
  clearly 
  the 
  reign 
  of 
  law 
  in 
  the 
  in- 
  

   organic 
  world. 
  No 
  room 
  was 
  left 
  for 
  guidance 
  or 
  control 
  

   other 
  than 
  there 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  things 
  themselves; 
  no 
  

   room 
  was 
  left 
  for 
  interventions 
  or 
  influxes; 
  and 
  the 
  idea 
  

   that 
  physical 
  events 
  were 
  immediately 
  ordered 
  " 
  by 
  the 
  hand 
  

   of 
  God 
  " 
  in 
  relation 
  to 
  human 
  interests 
  disappeared 
  like 
  a 
  

   dream. 
  There 
  came 
  indeed 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  exaggeration 
  of 
  the 
  

   omnipotence 
  of 
  the 
  Laws 
  of 
  Nature 
  man's 
  formulations 
  

   of 
  observed 
  uniformities 
  of 
  sequence, 
  which, 
  although 
  they 
  

   evidently 
  approximate 
  to 
  reality, 
  cannot 
  be 
  invested 
  with 
  

  

  