36 WHAT IS SCIENCE? 



were not obtainable. That is the true answer to all the 

 objections that we have just been considering ; it has 

 been useful to consider them, because we have been 

 enabled thereby to bring to light some matters important 

 in the procedure of science ; but the answer to all objec- 

 tions based on the difficulty that might conceivably 

 be encountered in obtaining universal agreement is that 

 such agreement is actually obtained, and that all our 

 practical life and all our thought are based on the 

 admission that, in .some matters but not in all, it is 

 actually obtained. 



There is, however, an objection of another kind which 

 may yet be raised, but, since the discussion of it leads 

 us directly into more strictly scientific inquiry, it will be 

 well to leave it to open a new chapter. 



