A Rational and Humane Science 



himself, to which I accord the fullest credit and 

 honour. 



And yet, during the time spoken of, it kept 

 growing on me : first, that the attempt was an 

 impossible one ; secondly, that the Science so-called 

 was not a true Science ; and thirdly, that in its 

 pretence to an intellectual exactitude which it 

 did not really possess, this Modern Science was 

 leading to a narrow-mindedness and a dogmatism 

 as bad as the old. 



There is in fact (so I think) a fallacy in the attempt. 

 But how shall I describe it ? Our relations to 

 the world may, quite roughly speaking, be divided 

 into three groups those that are sensuous and 

 perceptional, those that are purely intellectual, 

 and those that are of an emotional and moral order. 

 Take any object of Nature a bird, for instance. 

 We may look upon the bird as an object of sense- 

 perceptions its form, its colour, its song, and 

 so forth. Some people attain to extraordinary 

 skill and quickness in this department, recognising 

 in a moment the note or even the flight of a songster. 

 Then again we may look upon the bird from the 

 intellectual side we may study it in relation to 

 its surroundings the form of its wings, the length 

 of its leg, the character of its beak, and their adap- 

 tation to its habits, to its locality, to its food, and 

 so forth. Thus we may get a whole series of 

 purely intellectual results relations of the bird 

 to the world in which it lives. This is the special 

 field of the present-day Science. But, again, we 

 may regard the bird in its emotional and moral 



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