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  THE 
  UNFATHOMED 
  UNIVERSE 
  

  

  insight 
  will 
  upset 
  it. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  question, 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  

   hand, 
  of 
  admitting 
  into 
  our 
  feeling 
  for 
  Nature 
  any 
  element 
  

   that 
  is 
  incongruent 
  with 
  our 
  intellectual 
  experience. 
  That 
  

   way 
  lies 
  sentimentalism 
  or 
  worse. 
  But 
  we 
  need 
  not 
  be 
  too 
  

   timorous 
  in 
  our 
  anthropomorphism 
  or 
  afraid 
  of 
  exaggerating 
  

   the 
  wonder 
  and 
  subtlety 
  of 
  Nature. 
  We 
  cannot, 
  for 
  our 
  

   life's 
  sake, 
  and 
  for 
  the 
  sake 
  of 
  our 
  philosophical 
  reconstruc- 
  

   tion, 
  afford 
  to 
  lose 
  in 
  scientific 
  analysis 
  what 
  the 
  poets 
  and 
  

   artists 
  and 
  the 
  lovers 
  of 
  Nature 
  all 
  see. 
  It 
  is 
  intuitively 
  

   felt, 
  rather 
  than 
  intellectually 
  perceived, 
  the 
  vision 
  of 
  things 
  

   as 
  totalities, 
  root 
  and 
  all, 
  all 
  in 
  all; 
  neither 
  fancifully, 
  nor 
  

   mystically, 
  but 
  sympathetically 
  in 
  their 
  wholeness. 
  There 
  

   is 
  a 
  deep 
  wisdom 
  in 
  Wordsworth's 
  remark 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  

   Prefaces: 
  " 
  Poetry 
  is 
  the 
  breath 
  and 
  finer 
  spirit 
  of 
  all 
  

   knowledge; 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  impassioned 
  expression 
  which 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  

   countenance 
  of 
  all 
  science." 
  

  

  To 
  all 
  those 
  who 
  remind 
  us 
  what 
  " 
  a 
  dubious 
  and 
  vary- 
  

   ing 
  oracle 
  ' 
  feeling 
  has 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  in 
  the 
  past, 
  we 
  would 
  

   answer, 
  " 
  But 
  how 
  often 
  a 
  wise 
  counsellor 
  ! 
  ' 
  In 
  an 
  exalted 
  

   mood 
  many 
  have 
  in 
  the 
  light 
  of 
  feeling 
  made 
  decisions 
  from 
  

   which 
  the 
  happiness 
  of 
  a 
  lifetime 
  flowed, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  

   wise 
  man 
  who 
  declared 
  that 
  great 
  ideas 
  come 
  from 
  the 
  heart. 
  

   We 
  mean 
  by 
  feeling 
  in 
  its 
  finer 
  expression 
  the 
  lamp 
  which 
  

   others 
  have 
  called 
  intuition. 
  It 
  goes 
  out 
  if 
  not 
  tended, 
  and 
  

   if 
  facts 
  do 
  not 
  form 
  part 
  of 
  its 
  oil 
  the 
  flame 
  will 
  sputter. 
  

   But 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  light 
  in 
  the 
  region 
  ( 
  beyond 
  science 
  '. 
  As 
  M. 
  

   Bergson 
  writes, 
  " 
  Sur 
  notre 
  personnalite, 
  sur 
  notre 
  liberte 
  

   . 
  . 
  . 
  sur 
  notre 
  origine 
  et 
  peut-etre 
  aussi 
  sur 
  notre 
  destinee, 
  

   elle 
  projette 
  une 
  lumiere 
  vacillante 
  et 
  faible, 
  mais 
  qui 
  n'en 
  

   perce 
  pas 
  moins 
  1'obscurite 
  de 
  la 
  nuit 
  ou 
  nous 
  laisse 
  P 
  in- 
  

   telligence." 
  

  

  The 
  words 
  " 
  The 
  Unf 
  at 
  homed 
  Universe 
  ", 
  used 
  in 
  the 
  title 
  

  

  