io . Presidential Address 



Emotion and Intuition and Instinct 

 are immensely older than science, and in 

 a comprehensive survey of existence they 

 cannot be ignored. Scientific men may 

 rightly neglect them, in order to do their 

 proper work, but philosophers cannot. 



So Philosophers have begun to question 

 some of the larger generalisations of 

 science, and to ask whether in the effort 

 to be universal and comprehensive we 

 have not extended our laboratory induc- 

 tions too far. The Conservation of En- 

 ergy, for instance, is it always and 

 everywhere valid; or may it under some 

 conditions be disobeyed? It would seem 

 as if the second law of Thermodynamics 

 must be somewhere disobeyed at least 

 if the age of the Universe is both ways 

 infinite, else the final consummation 

 would have already arrived. 



Not by Philosophers only, but by scien- 

 tific men also, ancient postulates are 

 being pulled up by the roots. Physicists 

 and Mathematicians are beginning to 

 consider whether the long-known and well 

 established laws of mechanics hold true 



