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save those called scientific, but there has been perfect oper 

 *~ the retreat from the position of world-inLpretaln 

 No longer should ,t be possible to ask, as the title of a not 

 very anc.ent book does, "God or Natural Selection ?>' for 

 tha, ,s opposing an interpretative concept to a descriptive 

 formula ,n short, trying to talk two languages at once. 



The th,rd hopeful sign, as it seems to an outsider is . 

 change on the part of Philosophy in its relations with Science 



here a growing recognition that Philosophy must use 

 her characteristic^ interpretative reconstruction all the gen 

 era. resuhs of the science, The Procrustean attempt o C 

 the facts of Nature to fit a premeditated abstract intellect 

 scheme ,s not more promising than the antipodal attemp 

 to wnng a philosophical system ont of Nature alone Th 

 reaction of L to from ScheHing may serve as a diagrammlt 

 .llustrat,on of what ,s now taking place in our midst; that 

 Pblosophy using the best that science can give and is 

 systemafsing that along with the other winning of the de- 

 velopmg human spirit 



Prof. A E. Taylor give, (1909, p. 192) a l uminous 

 statement of the relation between science and philosophy 



