14 EMILE BOUTROUX 



intractable. But science has in that respect 

 invented the method of indirect measure or 

 equivalent. For phenomena immeasurable in 

 themselves she substitues phenomena directly 

 measurable, connected with the first by an 

 exact law. Thus, for example, heat is meas- 

 ured, not in itself, but by the height of a col- 

 umn of mercury. Thanks to the generaliza- 

 tion of this method, there is no phenomenon 

 which cannot theoretically be submitted to 

 scientific investigation, and Berthelot was able 

 to say from the standpoint of rights if not of 

 facts : "Nature has for us no more mysteries." 



We are then told not only that there is no 

 certitude outside of science, but that the juris- 

 diction of science includes everything. How 

 then can there be a culture outside of science? 



You may allege the irreducibility of feel- 

 ing, the opposition we perceive each day be- 

 tween the intelligence and the heart, science 

 and life. But the celebrated English philos- 

 opher, Leslie Stephen, has given for this fact 

 an explanation which very much diminishes 

 its importance. "The imagination," he says, 

 "lags behind the reason." Imagination, feel- 



