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  sense. 
  Similarly 
  there 
  are 
  many 
  who 
  have 
  established 
  for 
  

   themselves 
  scientific 
  order 
  over 
  large 
  areas, 
  but 
  have 
  not 
  

   sought 
  to 
  correlate 
  it 
  with 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  their 
  experience, 
  

   thus 
  failing 
  of 
  philosophical 
  endeavour. 
  And 
  others 
  who 
  

   seek 
  do 
  not 
  find. 
  Similarly, 
  many 
  scholars 
  who 
  have 
  a 
  

   philosophy 
  of 
  history 
  have 
  neither 
  a 
  philosophy 
  nor 
  a 
  science 
  

   of 
  Nature. 
  It 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  recognised, 
  then, 
  that 
  the 
  empirical, 
  

   the 
  scientific, 
  and 
  the 
  philosophical 
  order 
  co-exist 
  in 
  us 
  and 
  

   in 
  our 
  midst. 
  

  

  Another 
  note 
  may 
  be 
  permitted. 
  It 
  has 
  often 
  been 
  pointed 
  

   out 
  that 
  progress 
  in 
  intellectual 
  construction 
  is 
  correlated 
  

   with 
  mastery 
  of 
  environing 
  conditions. 
  As 
  compared 
  with 
  

   the 
  early 
  working 
  knowledge, 
  the 
  scientific 
  order 
  meant 
  in- 
  

   creased 
  control 
  of 
  Nature, 
  and 
  as 
  science 
  has 
  grown 
  our 
  

   mastery 
  has 
  widened 
  and 
  deepened. 
  We 
  have 
  only 
  to 
  think 
  

   of 
  the 
  successive 
  harnessings 
  of 
  wind, 
  water, 
  steam, 
  and 
  elec- 
  

   tricity. 
  Preventive 
  medicine 
  and 
  hygiene, 
  the 
  arts 
  of 
  agri- 
  

   culture 
  and 
  breeding 
  are 
  good 
  instances 
  of 
  the 
  passage 
  from 
  

   control 
  of 
  the 
  inorganic 
  to 
  the 
  control 
  of 
  organisms. 
  When 
  

   we 
  look 
  around 
  and 
  see 
  how 
  much 
  men 
  suffer 
  from 
  a 
  par- 
  

   tiality 
  of 
  view 
  that 
  is 
  remediable 
  and 
  from 
  philosophies 
  

   which 
  are 
  discreditable, 
  is 
  it 
  too 
  much 
  to 
  hope 
  that 
  the 
  grow- 
  

   ing 
  philosophical 
  order 
  is 
  going 
  to 
  lead 
  us 
  to 
  an 
  increased 
  

   control 
  of 
  the 
  higher 
  issues 
  of 
  life 
  an 
  aid 
  which 
  Religion 
  

   will 
  be 
  unwise 
  to 
  refuse 
  ? 
  

  

  7. 
  Science 
  and 
  Religion. 
  

  

  Science 
  is 
  frankly 
  empirical 
  in 
  method 
  and 
  aim 
  ; 
  it 
  seeks 
  

   to 
  discover 
  the 
  laws 
  of 
  concrete 
  being 
  and 
  becoming, 
  and 
  to 
  

   formulate 
  these 
  in 
  the 
  simplest 
  terms, 
  which 
  are 
  either 
  im- 
  

   mediate 
  data 
  of 
  experience 
  or 
  verifiably 
  derived 
  therefrom. 
  

   The 
  scientific 
  ' 
  universe 
  of 
  discourse 
  ' 
  docs 
  not 
  include 
  tran- 
  

  

  