130 The Bible of Nature 



"The words will, soul, spirit, do not stand for 

 different ideas, or in truth, for any idea at all, but 

 for something which is very different from ideas, 

 and which, being an agent, cannot be like unto or 

 represented by any idea whatever." And similarly, 

 to go to the other pole, namely, scientific psychology, 

 we find one of its ablest exponents, Professor Miin- 

 sterberg, admitting that it "is not an expression 

 of reality, but a complicated transformation of 

 it, worked out for special logical purposes in 

 the service of our life." ("Psychology and Life," 

 1899.) 



Fundamental Mysteriousness of Nature. Let us 

 put the matter in another way by asking whether 

 Science has any contribution to make toward a 

 recognition of the spirituality of Nature. At first, 

 of course, Science draws in its horns and says NO. 

 That is not its metier. But it is better than its 

 word, for it discloses Rationality, Order, Unity, 

 Progress; and that is great gain. It also recog- 

 nizes the fundamental mysteriousness of Nature, 

 and that in three ways. There is mysteriousness in 

 the common denominator say, Matter, Energy, 

 Ether to which it seeks to reduce things. There 

 is mysteriousness in the sequences it discloses, 

 when the resultant consequences are new as 

 compared with their component antecedents. 

 There is mysteriousness in the beginnings from 

 which it starts in its genetic descriptions; they do 



