enveloped him, the practical and emotional characteristics were 

 most influential. 



From out this complex background of primitive culture, a 

 background which was dominantly religious, there gradually 

 evolved a scientific attitude of mind. It was that mental attitude 

 the aims of which have been delineated above. But it is important 

 to remember that for the early investigators this attitude was just 

 as much philosophic as scientific. They had drawn as yet no dis- 

 tinction between the two terms. Science for them was philosophy 

 and philosophy was science. It is probable, too, that, in all cases, 

 primitive peoples tried to break down the gigantic barrier to know- 

 ledge by one great blow. In the case of the Greeks, there is, of 

 course, actual historic evidence for this. But they failed. The 

 universe was not thus to be understood. A better method must 

 arise, and, just as from the dominantly religious attitude there had 

 evolved a scientific or philosophic frame of mind, so gradually 

 there became differentiated from this mental attitude the different 

 special studies, by which means man has been able to make great 

 advance. The rise and development and analysis of these special 

 studies have formed the subject matter of the above discussion. 

 An outline of the more general discipline arising from the various 

 special sciences or special philosophies has yet to be done. 



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