3o8 NATURAL SCIENCE. 



June, 

 1892. 



question raised by the Grammar of Science seems to be this : Are we, 

 in biology, geology, and physical science, to abandon the frankly 

 objective mode of regarding the phenomena we have to study, and to 

 frame our descriptions and definitions in accordance with the 

 idealistic results of psychology and philosophy ? Fully impressed 

 as I am with the general truth and value of these idealistic results 

 in their proper place, I hold that their introduction into the objective 

 study of nature is misleading, and tends to confusion. I advocate, 

 therefore, the retention of what I have termed the frankly objective 

 attitude, which is the attitude now assumed by students of natural 

 science, and which even the eloquence and clear logical treatment 

 (and it is both eloquent and logical) of the Grammar of Science will, I 

 believe, fail to reverse. 



C. Lloyd Morgan. 



