112 THE ANATOMY OF SCIENCE 



events will be spread out before our view." But 

 no philosophy has been more barren than the 

 mechanistic philosophy which this assumption 

 engendered. To-day in the admiration and en- 

 thusiasm which have been so justly aroused by 

 the remarkable achievements of Einstein a simi- 

 lar tendency is noticeable. As we read discus- 

 sions of the new "world-geometry" we might be 

 led to the notion that in this geometry lies the 

 whole of science. But it is only another stage 

 in the constant competition between those who 

 are complicating science by newer and bolder 

 experiments and those who are simplifying it by 

 inventing more general theories and more com- 

 prehensive mathematics. 



