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grasp the fact that Nature, however complex, is never myste- 

 rious. As a final result all time-honored systems of philosophy, 

 if not all possible systems, have been thrust out from science as 

 belonging to the realm of literature, at times of poetry. No 

 longer do they dogmatically control conduct. ... In the 

 conflict with tradition the real and timely in act and motive 

 strives to replace the unreal and the obsolete. . . . To live 

 here and now as a man should live constitutes the ethics of 

 science. This practical ideal is in constant antithesis to the 

 ethics of ecclesiasticism, asceticism, and militarism, as well as 

 to the fancies of the various groups of "intellectual malcontents 

 to whom the progress of Science seems slow and laborious." 



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