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certitude but also to deny that there is cer- 

 titude anywhere else but in science. 



Doubtless, according to the opinion of the 

 average man, there is a certitude based on 

 feeling alone and the energy which character- 

 izes it is no less than that which is inherent to 

 scientific certitude. 



But science sees in it nothing but a condi- 

 tion of soul entirely subjective, comparable 

 to dream or desire. The word belief or fancy 

 would be better adapted to describe it. Far 

 from its being the case that truth depends on 

 certitude, we must rather say that certitude 

 depends on truth. Let nobody, then, pretend 

 to know, where science confesses ignorance. 

 Nothing is knowable for man but what can be 

 scientifically known. 



Consider also, the scientists urge, that, since 

 Galileo and Descartes, the whole domain of 

 being has come little by little under the con- 

 trol of science. Doubtless science is not sat- 

 isfied unless she measures and calculates and 

 many facts taken by themselves cannot be 

 measured; for instance, all vital phenomena; 

 and psychological phenomena are even more 



