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of personal beliefs into experimentally executed 

 systems of actions, is the organized bureau of 

 philanthropy which confers upon a travailing uni 

 verse the meaning for which it cries out. The 

 apostrophe of the poet is above all to man the 

 thinker, the inquirer, the knower: 



O Dreamer! O Desirer, goer down 

 Unto untraveled seas in untried ships, 

 O crusher of the unimagined grape, 

 On unconceived lips. 



2. Biology, psychology, and the social sciences 

 proffer an imposing body of concrete facts that 

 also point to the rehabilitation of belief to the 

 interpretation of knowledge as a human and prac 

 tical outgrowth of belief, not to belief as the state 

 to which knowledge is condemned in a merely finite 

 and phenomenal world. I need not, as I cannot, 

 here summarize the psychological revision which 

 the notions of sensation, perception, conception, 

 cognition in general have undergone, all to one in 

 tent. &quot; Motor &quot; is writ large on their face. The 

 testimony of biology is unambiguous to the effect 

 that the organic instruments of the whole intel 

 lectual life, the sense-organs and brain and their 

 connections, have been developed on a definitely 

 practical basis and for practical aims, for the 

 purpose of such control over conditions as will 

 sustain and vary the meanings of life. The his- 



