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  In 
  the 
  preface 
  to 
  his 
  Diversions 
  of 
  a 
  Natunil/sf 
  ( 
  i:>i:,, 
  

   p. 
  vi), 
  Sir 
  Ray 
  Lankester, 
  who 
  has 
  so 
  greatly 
  enriched 
  

   Zoology, 
  speaks 
  in 
  a 
  very 
  interesting 
  way 
  of 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  

   science 
  in 
  giving 
  us 
  prevision 
  and 
  control, 
  but 
  goes 
  on 
  to 
  

   say: 
  " 
  Science 
  commends 
  itself 
  to 
  us 
  as 
  does 
  Honesty 
  and 
  

   as 
  does 
  great 
  Art 
  and 
  all 
  fine 
  thought 
  and 
  deed- 
  -not 
  as 
  a 
  

   policy 
  yielding 
  material 
  profits, 
  but 
  because 
  it 
  satisfies 
  man's 
  

   soul." 
  This 
  is 
  very 
  different 
  from 
  the 
  old 
  moan 
  that 
  increase 
  

   of 
  knowledge 
  is 
  increase 
  of 
  sorrow, 
  and 
  surely 
  nmro 
  \vlmli- 
  

   some, 
  but 
  we 
  wonder 
  if 
  it 
  is 
  true. 
  Is 
  it 
  science 
  that 
  satisfies 
  

   man's 
  soul, 
  or 
  is 
  it 
  the 
  attendant 
  feeling 
  and 
  imagining 
  

   which 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  Nature 
  evokes 
  ? 
  

  

  There 
  have 
  always 
  been 
  men 
  of 
  science, 
  tough-minded 
  

   by 
  birth, 
  to 
  whom 
  an 
  enthusiasm 
  for 
  natural 
  knowledge 
  has 
  

   been 
  in 
  itself 
  enough, 
  who 
  have 
  asked 
  for 
  no 
  satisfaction 
  

   from 
  either 
  faith 
  or 
  feeling; 
  and 
  the 
  world 
  owes 
  much 
  to 
  

   their 
  preoccupation. 
  But 
  this 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  true 
  on 
  the 
  

   whole 
  ; 
  the 
  unsatisfyingness 
  of 
  an 
  exclusively 
  scientific 
  view 
  

   of 
  Nature 
  has 
  been 
  confessed 
  age 
  after 
  age. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  ages 
  of 
  the 
  empirical 
  order 
  Man 
  had 
  his 
  imaginative 
  

   constructions 
  of 
  early 
  magic 
  and 
  of 
  early 
  animism. 
  These 
  

   were 
  attempts 
  to 
  eke 
  out 
  very 
  imperfect 
  understanding 
  and 
  

   very 
  imperfect 
  control 
  of 
  Nature, 
  but 
  they 
  were 
  also 
  sops 
  

   to 
  feeling. 
  The 
  replacement 
  of 
  the 
  empirical 
  order 
  by 
  the 
  

   scientific 
  order 
  was 
  great 
  gain. 
  It 
  meant 
  a 
  less 
  beclouded 
  

   intellectual 
  sky 
  and 
  a 
  greatly 
  increased 
  mastery 
  of 
  natural 
  

   resources. 
  But 
  with 
  the 
  gain 
  came 
  loss, 
  for 
  the 
  reconstruc- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  science 
  are 
  austere, 
  not 
  home-like 
  to 
  the 
  human 
  spirit. 
  

   The 
  creations 
  of 
  early 
  days 
  the 
  attractive 
  elves 
  as 
  well 
  

   as 
  the 
  repellent 
  gnomes 
  were 
  scattered 
  by 
  the 
  growing 
  light 
  

   of 
  science, 
  save 
  a 
  few 
  which 
  found 
  refuge 
  and 
  here 
  and 
  

   there 
  still 
  linger 
  in 
  the 
  caverns 
  of 
  Man's 
  mind. 
  There 
  is 
  

  

  