134 THE NEW PHYSIOLOGY. 



science discover a soul which directed all the bodily 

 movements and processes ; and in any case no psycho- 

 logical theory based on self-interest would explain the 

 actual course taken by the men : for they clearly acted 

 with very little regard to either their individual bodies 

 or their individual souls. They acted just as their 

 comrades at the front are now acting, in the midst of 

 mud and water, bursting shells, flying bullets, and 

 poisonous gas. To the high-power view of natural 

 science we seem lost in a maze of physiological pro- 

 cesses ; but we are pulled up at once if we attempt to 

 belittle the importance of any one of these processes, 

 for each one of them can be shown to be essential. 



Now idealism points out that what natural science 

 has told us does not express the reality itself, any more 

 than the ideal molecules of the kinetic theory of gases 

 represent the real molecules. Outlined by the ideal 

 shadows which natural science shows us one by one, 

 there is a world of reality which reveals itself when 

 we look at them as a whole. It is only through the 

 shadows that the reality appears ; the more of them 

 we can see the fuller become the outlines of the reality. 

 Idealism does not look away from the shadows to some 

 world of mystery : it points to the reality traced by the 

 shadows themselves when they are looked at as a whole, 

 just as a picture is seen when we look at the strokes of 

 paint as a whole, or music is heard when we take in the 

 notes as a whole. 



The reality to which idealism ultimately points us 

 is a reality of order and unity, in which every detail 

 has the dignity and value which its participation in this 

 reality confers. In other words, the only real world 



