i 4 6 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



it for the whole world ; which, without it, would be robbed of all esteem. 



It must be confessed that a purely materialistic philosophy — if such 

 a thing were possible — would know nothing of values. It would regard 

 our judgments as it regards all other phenomena, and would point to 

 their endless diversity as proof that they have no special sanction. 

 What it would offer in defense of its own judgment upon this matter, is 

 perhaps not evident. 



Tor ourselves, the diversity of opinion which we find among men is 

 in part the necessary and desirable result of the different angles from 

 which things are viewed, and otherwise the product of that imperfection 

 which is the price we pay for progress. Most of us, perhaps, do not 

 trouble ourselves overmuch about the ultimate sanction, and yet I think 

 that deep clown in our hearts we all have some of the feeling embodied 

 in the saying that " One man, with God, is a majority." Without such 

 a philosophy, I am afraid we could not take ourselves quite seriously. 



