30 SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN PHILOSOPHY 



most difficult and obscure in the constitution of the 

 universe, it has great rewards to offer triumphs as note- 

 worthy as those of Newton and Darwin, and as important 

 in the long run, for the moulding of our mental habits. 

 And it brings with it as a new and powerful method of 

 investigation always does a sense of power and a hope 

 of progress more reliable and better grounded than any 

 that rests on hasty and fallacious generalisation as to the 

 nature of the universe at large. Many hopes which in- 

 spired philosophers in the past it cannot claim to fulfil ; 

 but other hopes, more purely intellectual, it can satisfy 

 more fully than former ages could have deemed possible 

 for human minds. 



