SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT 



A marked feature of the present scientific 

 era is the discovery of, and interest in, va- 

 rious kinds of Atomism; so that Continuity 

 seems in danger of being lost sight of. 



Another tendency is toward comprehen- 

 sive negative generalisations from a limited 

 point of view. 



Another is to take refuge in rather vague 

 forms of statement, and to shrink from 

 closer examination of the puzzling and the 

 obscure. 



Another is to deny the existence of any- 

 thing which makes no appeal to organs of 

 sense, and no ready response to laboratory 

 experiment. 



Against these tendencies the author con- 

 tends. He urges a belief in ultimate con- 

 tinuity as essential to science; he regards 

 scientific concentration as an inadequate 

 basis for philosophic generalisation; he 



