22 NATURE S GOOD: A CONVERSATION 



reference to it. You may not call it supernatural ; 

 but when you talk about a realm of spiritual or 

 ideal values in general, and ask about its relation 

 to Nature in general, you have only changed the 

 labels on the bottles, not the contents in them. 

 Forjvhat makes anything transcendental that is, 

 in commoiLjaiigiiage^supernatural is simply andT 

 only alp^fn^s^fr^nL^^a^ctical_affairs -which af- 

 Talr s injhejr ..ultimate analysis are the business of 

 makinga living. 



Eaton. Yes ; Grimes has about hit off the point 

 of my little parable in one of its aspects at least. 

 In matters of daily life you say a man is &quot; off,&quot; 

 more or less insane, when he deliberately goes on 

 looking for a certain kind of result from condi 

 tions which he has already found to be such that 

 they cannot possibly yield it. If he keeps on look 

 ing, and then goes about mourning because stage 

 money won t buy beefsteaks, or because he can 

 not keep himself warm by burning the sea-sands 

 here, you dismiss him as a fool or a hysteric. If 

 you would condescend to reason with him at all, you 

 would tell him to look for the conditions that will 

 yield the results ; tooccupy himself with some of 

 the countless, goods of Jife for which, by intelli 

 gently directed search, _adequate means may be 

 found. 



Well, before lunch, Moore was reiterating the 

 old tale. &quot; Modern science has completely trans- 



