24 NATURE S GOOD: A CONVERSATION 



cally in the mountains because the hills do not melt 

 and flow. 



But no. Moore and his school will not have it 

 so : we must &quot; go back of the returns.&quot; All this 

 science, after all, is a mode of knowledge. Ex 

 amine knowledge itself and find it implies a com 

 plete all-inclusive intelligence; and then find (by 

 taking another tack) that intelligence involves 

 sentiency, feeling, and also will. Hence your very 

 physical science, if you will only criticise it, ex 

 amine it, shows that its object, mechanical nature, 

 is itself an included and superseded element in an 

 all-embracing spiritual and ideal whole. And there 

 you are. 



Well, I do not now insist that all this is mere 

 dialectic prestidigitation. No ; accept it ; let it go 

 at its face value. But what of it? Is any value 

 more concretely and securely in life than it was 

 before? Does this perfect intelligence enable us 

 to correct one single mis-step, one paltry error, 

 here and now? Does this perfect all-inclusive 

 goodness serve to heal one disease? Does it rectify 

 one trangression ? Does it even give the slightest 

 inkling of how to go to work at any of these 

 things? No; it just tells you: Never mind, for 

 they are already eternally corrected, eternally 

 healed in the eternal consciousness which alone is 

 really Real. Stop: there is one evil, one pain, 

 which the doctrine mitigates the hysteric senti- 



