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reach of scientific treatment of a natural order which 

 is observable and verifiable. 



The stories of the battles of the gods as recounted 

 in the ancient mythologies make but feeble appeal to 

 the practical man of afl^airs today. When, however, it 

 is pointed out to him by some modern seer that these 

 stories are truly symbolic of his own daily struggles, 

 defeats, and victories his quickened imagination 

 arouses and takes notice. 



Again, the titanic wars of more recent times be- 

 tween the various philosophic cults leave the earth- 

 bound scientific investigator cold. He is not even an 

 animated spectator. His interests lie elsewhere and he 

 looks the other way. What is it to him that dualists, 

 monists, pluralists, wage their wordy wars over the 

 shibboleths of parallelism, interactionism, epiphe- 

 nomenalism, and the rest? The weapons of these 

 valiant warriors seem to him but ghostly simulacra, 

 unbreakable because unsubstantial, whose futility has 

 been demonstrated by centuries of quixotic combat. 



When, however, the philosopher lays aside his ab- 

 solutes, his universals, and the other armamentaria 

 of pure reason, sets his feet squarely upon the solid 

 ground of verifiable observation, and essays to do 

 battle with the weapons of science, the man of science 

 is alert. For every scientific worker has a philosophy 

 of nature of his own, either thoughtfully worked out 

 or dimly adumbrated in the realms of prejudice and 

 obscurantism, and he is keen to evaluate the use 



