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and myth; the nature resplendent and adorned 

 which confronts us in Greek poetry and art: the 

 animism of savage man purged of grossness and 

 generalized by unerring esthetic taste into beauty 

 and system. The myths had told of the loves and 

 hates, the caprices and desertions of the gods, 

 and behind them all, inevitable Fate. Philosophy 

 translated these tales into formulae of the brute 

 fluctuation of rapacious change held in bounds 

 by the final and supreme end: the rational good. 

 v The animism of the popular mind died to reappear 

 as cosmology. 



Repeatedly in this course we have heard of sci 

 ences which began as parts of philosophy and 

 which gradually won their independence. Another 

 statement of the same history is that both science 



? and philosophy began in subjection to mythological 

 animism. Both began with acceptance of a nature 

 whose irregularities displayed the meaningless vari- 



, ability of foolish wants held within the limits of 

 order and uniformity by an underlying movement 

 toward a final and stable purpose. And when 

 the sciences gradually assumed the task of reduc 

 ing irregular caprice to regular conjunction, phi 

 losophy bravely took upon itself the task of sub 

 stantiating, under the caption of a spiritual view 

 of the universe, the animistic survival. Doubtless 

 Socrates brought philosophy to earth ; but his in 

 junction to man to know himself was incredibly 



