204 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE 



tive like an animal, but with deeper devices; on 

 the other side there is Nature, a rare collection 

 of riddles. The sciences are the solutions. 



In olden times when the natural sciences were 

 young, when few methods of investigation were 

 known, Man found himself hemmed in by the 

 unknown and mysterious, so oppressively at 

 times that a religious formulation was sought 

 as a welcome refuge. At the end of his intel- 

 lectual tether, Man has never ceased to become 

 religious. 



Now-a-days, however, the rapid development 

 of Science has cleared away a hundred minor 

 mysteries. Problem after problem has been 

 solved, and the correctness of the solutions has 

 been verified in practical mastery of Nature. 

 Man's intellectual tether has been greatly length- 

 ened, and there are not a few who give the 

 ignorant to understand that most of the enigmas 

 of Nature have found their answers. 



But, as we have already seen, the solutions that 

 Science offers have obvious limitations. They 

 do not satisfy most men, who will persist in ask- 

 ing questions which Science never asks, ques- 

 tions about beginnings and ends, about meanings 

 and values. Let us recall for a moment some of 

 the limitations. Scientific formulations are always 

 in terms of something "given" which is unex- 

 plained. In its historical treatment of things 



