14 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE 



an intellectual system in which phenomena are 

 at least provisionally unified. 



And, as we have indicated the vices of an exag- 

 gerated emotional mood and of a too exclusively 

 practical mood, so we must admit that the 

 hypertrophied scientific mood has its risks, of 

 ranking science first, and life second (as if science 

 were not, after all, for the evolution of life); of 

 ignoring good feeling (as if knowledge could not 

 be bought at too high a price); of pedantry (as 

 if science were merely a "preserve" for the ex- 

 pert intellectual sportsman, and not also an 

 education for the citizen); of disproportionate 

 analysis dissecting more than it reconstructs 

 so that the artistic perception of unity and har- 

 mony is lost; of maniacal muck-raking for items 

 of fact (as if facts alone constituted a science). 



ADJUSTMENT OF MOODS. Before we go on to 

 consider the characteristics of the scientific mood 

 in greater detail, let us sum up so far. There are 

 three dominant moods in man practical, emo- 

 tional, and scientific each with its subdivisions. 

 They correspond symbolically to hand, heart, and 

 head, and they are all equally necessary and 

 worthy. "And the eye cannot say unto the 

 hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head 

 to the feet, I have no need of you." They are 

 all worthy, but most so when they respect one 

 another as equally justifiable outlooks on nature, 



