II * PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC REALISM 89 



It is needless to trace the process of retrogressive 

 metamorphosis by which, through the agency of 

 the Messiah, the steps of the process of evolution 

 here sketched are retraced. Sufficient has been 

 said to prove that the extremist realism current 

 in the philosophy of the thirteenth century can 

 be fully matched by the speculations of our own 

 time. 



