62 PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC REALISM II 



by many scratches, the explorer has toiled through 

 this jungle, he comes to an open country which is 

 amazingly like his dear native land. The hills 

 which he has to climb, the ravines he has to 

 avoid, look very much the same ; there is the 

 same infinite space above, and the same abyss of 

 the unknown below ; the means of travelling are 

 the same, and the goal is the same. 



That goal for the schoolmen, as for us, is the 

 settlement of the question how far the universe is 

 the manifestation of a rational order ; in other 

 words, how far logical deduction from indisput- 

 able premisses will account for that which has 

 happened and does happen. That was the object 

 of scholasticism, and, so far as I am aware, the 

 object of modern science may be expressed in 

 the same terms. [ In pursuit of this end, modern 

 science takes into account all the phenomena of 

 the universe which are brought to our knowledge 

 by observation or by experiment. It admits that 

 there are two worlds to be considered, the one 

 physical and the other psychical ; and that though 

 there is a most intimate relation and interconnec- 

 tion between the two, the bridge from one to the 

 other has yet to be found ; that their phenomena 

 run, not in one series, but along two parallel lines. 1 



To the schoolmen the duality of the universe 

 appeared under a different aspect. How this 

 came about will not be intelligible unless we 

 clearly apprehend the fact that they did really 



