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the region of sensible and experimental y^^/j- into the 

 empirically unknown, empirically unattested, empiri- 

 cally unwarranted region of supersensible principles. 

 The exact scientific truth about all such inferences, 

 and the supposed realities which they establish or 

 displace, is simply that they are not warranted 

 by natural science ; and that this withholding of 

 warrant is only the expression by natural science 

 of its incompetency to enter upon such questions. 



Natural science must therefore, in truth, be de- 

 clared silent on this question of pantheism ; as indeed 

 it is, and from the nature of the case must be, upon 

 all theories of the supersensible alike — theistic, 

 deistic, atheistic, pantheistic. Natural science has 

 no proper concern with such theories. Science may 

 well enough be said to be ;/(?;/-pantheistic, but so also 

 is it non-theistic, non-deistic, non-atheistic. Its posi- 

 tion, however, is not for that reason rt'/z/Z-pantheistic, 

 any more than it is anti-theistic, or anti-deistic, or 

 anti-atheistic. Rather, it is merely agnostic ; not in 

 the sense of the dogmatic philosophies of agnosticism, 

 but simply in the sense of declining to affect know- 

 ledge in the premises, seeing they are beyond its 

 method and its province. In short, its agnosticism 

 is simply its neutrality, and doesn't in the least imply 

 that agnosticism is the final view of things. The 

 investigation of the final view, the research concern- 

 ing the First Principle, science leaves to methods 



