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He holds that this latter type of mind can find more 

 and devious ways down which to travel, than any other 

 group, but seldom can it stay at one problem until such 

 problem is plumbed to its very depth. 



It matters not whether we accept any of these analyses. 

 It does matter whether or not we know that they are 

 there, and that the men who hold them are just as able as 

 those who hold opinions quite the reverse. 



The one type of mind insists upon knowing everything 

 about a subject; the other wants to know the subject 

 itself. Let us illustrate. It is conceivable that one might 

 find a scholar who knew every book and article ever writ- 

 ten on friendship ; who had taken those who were friends 

 of each other into his psychological laboratory and found 

 how they reacted to each other under all and sundry 

 conditions. In other words, here is a man who knows 

 more than anyone else in the world on what we may call 

 the scholarship of friendship, and yet, it is also conceiv- 

 able that he himself never has known friendship. Know- 

 ing about a thing, and knowing it, are two different things. 



The poet who has sung of 



"A sense of law and beauty, and a face turned from 

 the clod, 



Some call it Evolution and others call it God," 

 has really a wider understanding of that thing we call 

 life than have many biologists. For, after all, has he not 

 in these few lines really described life ? The law of which 

 he speaks is science, and the beauty he mentions calls 

 forth the idea of ideals, of character, in fact, of all things 



