﻿THE 
  UNFATHOMED 
  UNIVERSE 
  37 
  

  

  save 
  those 
  called 
  scientific, 
  but 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  perfect 
  open- 
  

   ness 
  in 
  the 
  retreat 
  from 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  world-interpretation. 
  

   No 
  longer 
  should 
  it 
  be 
  possible 
  to 
  ask, 
  as 
  the 
  title 
  of 
  a 
  not 
  

   very 
  ancient 
  book 
  does, 
  " 
  God 
  or 
  Natural 
  Selection?", 
  for 
  

   that 
  is 
  opposing 
  an 
  interpretative 
  concept 
  to 
  a 
  descriptive 
  

   formula, 
  in 
  short, 
  trying 
  to 
  talk 
  two 
  languages 
  at 
  once. 
  

  

  The 
  third 
  hopeful 
  sign, 
  as 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  an 
  outsider, 
  is 
  a 
  

   change 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  Philosophy 
  in 
  its 
  relations 
  with 
  Science. 
  

   There 
  is 
  a 
  growing 
  recognition 
  that 
  Philosophy 
  must 
  use 
  in 
  

   her 
  characteristically 
  interpretative 
  reconstruction 
  all 
  the 
  gen- 
  

   eral 
  results 
  of 
  the 
  sciences. 
  The 
  Procrustean 
  attempt 
  to 
  force 
  

   the 
  facts 
  of 
  Nature 
  to 
  fit 
  a 
  premeditated 
  abstract 
  intellectual 
  

   scheme 
  is 
  not 
  more 
  promising 
  than 
  the 
  antipodal 
  attempt 
  

   to 
  wring 
  a 
  philosophical 
  system 
  out 
  of 
  Nature 
  alone. 
  The 
  

   reaction 
  of 
  Lotze 
  from 
  Schelling 
  may 
  serve 
  as 
  a 
  diagrammatic 
  

   illustration 
  of 
  what 
  is 
  now 
  taking 
  place 
  in 
  our 
  midst 
  ; 
  that 
  

   philosophy 
  is 
  using 
  the 
  best 
  that 
  science 
  can 
  give, 
  and 
  is 
  

   systematising 
  that 
  along 
  with 
  the 
  other 
  winnings 
  of 
  the 
  de- 
  

   veloping 
  human 
  spirit. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  A. 
  E. 
  Taylor 
  gives 
  (1909, 
  p. 
  192) 
  a 
  luminous 
  

   statement 
  of 
  the 
  relation 
  between 
  science 
  and 
  philosophy 
  : 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Philosophy 
  of 
  Nature 
  and 
  of 
  Mind 
  only 
  begins 
  

   where 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  experimental 
  sciences 
  leaves 
  off. 
  Its 
  data 
  are 
  not 
  

   particular 
  facts, 
  as 
  directly 
  amassed 
  by 
  experiment 
  and 
  observation, 
  

   but 
  the 
  hypotheses 
  used 
  by 
  experimental 
  science 
  for 
  the 
  co-ordina- 
  

   tion 
  and 
  description 
  of 
  these 
  facts. 
  And 
  it 
  examines 
  these 
  hypoth- 
  

   eses, 
  not 
  with 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  modifying 
  their 
  structure 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  in- 
  

   clude 
  new 
  facts, 
  or 
  to 
  include 
  the 
  old 
  facts 
  in 
  a 
  simpler 
  form, 
  but 
  

   purely 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  estimating 
  their 
  value 
  as 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  

   ultimately 
  real 
  existence. 
  Whether 
  the 
  hypotheses 
  are 
  adequate 
  as 
  

   implements 
  for 
  the 
  calculation 
  of 
  natural 
  processes 
  is 
  a 
  question 
  

   which 
  Philosophy, 
  when 
  it 
  understands 
  its 
  place, 
  leaves 
  entirely 
  

   to 
  the 
  special 
  sciences; 
  whether 
  they 
  can 
  claim 
  to 
  be 
  more 
  than 
  

   useful 
  formula 
  for 
  calculation, 
  i.e., 
  whether 
  they 
  give 
  us 
  knowledge 
  

  

  