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coherent Weltanschauung with a fair correspondence to the 

 facts of direct observation. 



From this common-sense world of experience is gradually 

 evolved a more correct and refined system of experience. 

 Anomalies are gradually eliminated and the logical rational 

 character of the system increases. And this refinement 

 continues until in the scientific conceptual system the 

 empirical common-sense order is completely overhauled 

 and reconstructed. In this system scientific concepts and 

 entities corresponding to nothing in empirical experience 

 become of fundamental importance, because without them 

 not only empirical experience but also the more refined 

 observations of Science become utterly unintelligible. The 

 matters dealt with in most of the preceding chapters belong 

 to the scientific conceptual system, as they base the world of 

 experience on real or hypothetical entities and factors 

 which, although they lie beyond the world of direct experi- 

 ence, are yet necessary for the rational order and coherence 

 and comprehension of the facts which do fall within the 

 range of ordinary and refined scientific experience. In this 

 system not only is the seen order made to depend on an un- 

 seen order of ideas of extraordinary refinement, but the im- 

 mense movements and changes of the universe are referred 

 to a very small number of fundamental principles which ap- 

 pear to govern all happening in the universe. From this 

 esoteric system to which Science is more and more tending 

 have been removed most of the anomalies, incoherences and 

 discrepancies of the empirical order. Many final difficulties 

 still remain, some of which may perhaps never be eliminated. 

 But on the whole the system of Science is rapidly becoming 

 a great rational body of experience and thought, closely 

 articulated in all its details, and held together by simple 

 principles of the widest sweep. The system as a whole 

 represents the proudest achievement of the Mind in its 

 rational activity as the regulative co-ordinating principle 

 in the universe. Mind as the principle of the rational 

 construction of the universe here reaches its highest ex- 

 pression. Professor L. T. Hobhouse in his great work 



