﻿THE 
  UNFATHOMED 
  UNIVERSE 
  25 
  

  

  unsolved 
  problems 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  way 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  solution 
  of 
  

   one 
  raises 
  another, 
  every 
  one 
  is 
  aware. 
  

  

  For 
  the 
  reasons 
  we 
  have 
  indicated 
  in 
  this 
  discussion 
  and 
  

   for 
  others, 
  there 
  are 
  many, 
  in 
  this 
  age 
  of 
  extraordinarily 
  

   rapid 
  scientific 
  discovery, 
  who 
  stand 
  wondering 
  before 
  an 
  

   unfathomed 
  universe. 
  We 
  have 
  made 
  many 
  charts, 
  but 
  

   there 
  is 
  still 
  more 
  sea. 
  Perhaps 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  hopeful 
  

   signs 
  at 
  once 
  of 
  the 
  progressiveness 
  of 
  science 
  and 
  of 
  it- 
  

   conformability 
  "with 
  the 
  humanities 
  and 
  philosophies 
  is 
  in 
  

   its 
  vivid 
  realisation 
  of 
  its 
  own 
  limitations. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  a 
  scientific 
  answer 
  to 
  a 
  scientific 
  

   question, 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  dream 
  of 
  arguing, 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  often 
  

   argued, 
  that 
  some 
  other 
  kind 
  of 
  answer, 
  say 
  theological, 
  

   must 
  be 
  true. 
  We 
  have 
  to 
  render 
  to 
  Cresar 
  the 
  things 
  that 
  

   are 
  Cassar's; 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  exchange 
  between 
  scientific 
  and 
  

   transcendental 
  coinage. 
  But 
  what 
  we 
  may 
  usefully 
  recog- 
  

   nise 
  is 
  the 
  self-imposed 
  limitation 
  of 
  science, 
  that 
  it 
  seeks, 
  

   for 
  certain 
  purposes 
  and 
  by 
  certain 
  methods, 
  to 
  describe 
  

   occurrences 
  and 
  processes 
  in 
  the 
  simplest 
  possible, 
  universally 
  

   verifiable 
  terms, 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  pretend 
  to 
  exhaust 
  their 
  

   reality. 
  This 
  leads 
  us 
  to 
  recognise 
  the 
  validity 
  of 
  feeling 
  in 
  

   an 
  interpretation 
  of 
  Nature. 
  

  

  5. 
  The 
  Function 
  of 
  Feeling 
  in 
  our 
  View 
  of 
  Nature. 
  

  

  The 
  world 
  without 
  has 
  played 
  a 
  great 
  part 
  in 
  the 
  educa- 
  

   tion 
  'of 
  the 
  human 
  spirit. 
  Its 
  enigmas 
  have 
  quickened 
  Man's 
  

   intelligence; 
  its 
  practical 
  problems 
  have 
  trained 
  his 
  will; 
  

   Animate 
  Nature 
  in 
  particular 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  school 
  of 
  feeling; 
  

   the 
  mother's 
  face 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  factor 
  in 
  the 
  evolution 
  of 
  per- 
  

   sonality 
  (see 
  Merz, 
  1916). 
  In 
  her 
  manifold 
  opportunities 
  

   Nature 
  has 
  thus 
  helped 
  man 
  to 
  polish 
  the 
  mirror 
  of 
  his 
  mind, 
  

   and 
  the 
  process 
  continues. 
  Nature 
  still 
  supplies 
  us 
  with 
  

  

  