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  THE 
  UNFATHOMED 
  UNIVERSE 
  

  

  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  the 
  scientific 
  method 
  is 
  antipodal 
  to 
  feeling, 
  and 
  

   that 
  scientific 
  methods 
  and 
  systems 
  are 
  almost 
  hostile. 
  So 
  we 
  

   tend 
  to 
  get 
  further 
  away 
  from 
  " 
  an 
  original 
  relation 
  to 
  

   Nature 
  ", 
  such 
  as 
  many 
  children 
  have, 
  such 
  as 
  Emerson 
  re- 
  

   ferred 
  to 
  when 
  he 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  earlier 
  generations 
  saw 
  God 
  

   face 
  to 
  face 
  ; 
  we 
  through 
  their 
  eyes. 
  Why 
  should 
  not 
  we 
  also 
  

   enjoy 
  an 
  original 
  relation 
  to 
  Nature 
  ? 
  ' 
  

  

  It 
  might 
  be 
  thought 
  that 
  the 
  more 
  science 
  grows 
  the 
  more 
  

   feeling 
  should 
  deepen. 
  " 
  All 
  knowledge," 
  Coleridge 
  said, 
  

   " 
  begins 
  and 
  ends 
  with 
  wonder, 
  but 
  the 
  first 
  wonder 
  is 
  the 
  

   child 
  of 
  ignorance, 
  while 
  the 
  second 
  wonder 
  is 
  the 
  parent 
  

   of 
  adoration." 
  Truly 
  progressive 
  science 
  should 
  enrich 
  our 
  

   feeling, 
  for 
  it 
  gives 
  to 
  our 
  vision 
  depth, 
  order, 
  connectedness, 
  

   and 
  continuity, 
  and 
  makes 
  the 
  whole 
  world 
  more 
  translucent 
  

   and 
  more 
  full 
  of 
  meaning. 
  But 
  we 
  have, 
  after 
  all, 
  to 
  admit 
  

   that 
  the 
  light 
  of 
  science 
  is 
  as 
  cold 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  clear. 
  Keats 
  was 
  

   right 
  in 
  lamenting 
  that 
  the 
  rainbow 
  had 
  never 
  been 
  quite 
  

   the 
  same, 
  in 
  spite 
  of 
  what 
  Wordsworth 
  said, 
  since 
  Newton 
  

   looked 
  at 
  it 
  with 
  his 
  discerning 
  eye. 
  No 
  doubt 
  that 
  for 
  any 
  

   wonder 
  Science 
  dissipates, 
  she 
  gives 
  us 
  twain 
  ; 
  but 
  they 
  are 
  

   not 
  the 
  old 
  homely 
  wonders. 
  No 
  doubt, 
  though 
  Science 
  is 
  

   ever 
  pushing 
  the 
  curtain 
  back 
  a 
  little 
  further, 
  so 
  that 
  half- 
  

   wonders 
  disappear, 
  the 
  wonder 
  remains. 
  But 
  the 
  funda- 
  

   mental 
  mysteriousness 
  of 
  Nature 
  is 
  cold 
  comfort 
  for 
  the 
  

   loss 
  of 
  the 
  wonder 
  of 
  the 
  rainbow 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Northern 
  Lights, 
  

   of 
  the 
  flower 
  in 
  the 
  crannied 
  wall 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  way 
  of 
  the 
  

   eagle 
  in 
  the 
  air. 
  

  

  The 
  fact 
  is 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  rather 
  the 
  scientific 
  mood 
  than 
  science 
  

   that 
  is 
  opposed 
  to 
  feeling. 
  For 
  the 
  eyes 
  of 
  the 
  investigator 
  

   have 
  neither 
  laughter 
  nor 
  tears. 
  In 
  the 
  actual 
  work 
  of 
  

   science, 
  emotion 
  is 
  dangerous. 
  For 
  scientific 
  purposes 
  we 
  

   must 
  look 
  out 
  of 
  one 
  window 
  only 
  and 
  with 
  all 
  possible 
  con- 
  

  

  