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quate for all things human and divine, a 

 science before which man, as man, could not 

 pretend to take any attitude but one of obed- 

 ient submission complete and absolute. 



Once more man protested. Every one 

 knows with what eloquence that protest is ex- 

 pressed by Goethe's Faust: 



Was man nicht weiss, das eben brauchte man, 

 Und was man weiss, kann man nicht brauchen. 



Wehl Steck 3 ich in dem Kerker noch? 



Flieh! Auf! Hinaus in J s weite land! 



The works of a Rabelais or a Montaigne are 

 nothing else but a continual revindication of 

 the rights of culture and of life, in the pres- 

 ence of the tyranny of abstract science. 

 "Knowledge without conscience," said Rabe- 

 lais, "is simply the ruin of the soul." And 

 Montaigne: "Science without judgment is the 

 destruction of the mind." 



Finally, with Descartes, the principle of cul- 

 ture triumphed, and triumphed, moreover, in 

 such a way as, at the same time, to maintain 



