GREAT QUESTIONS IN LITTLE 



them have contrivances to secure cross-fertilization, 

 why some seeds have hooks, others wings, and 

 others springs. But all these "whys" are involved 

 in the " hows " of the plants' getting on in the world. 

 Why the child is afraid in the dark, and why the 

 infant has such a strong grip in its hands, have good 

 and sufficient reasons in the past history of the race. 

 If we were to ask why the moon has no atmosphere, 

 what we really want to know is, How happens it 

 that the moon has no atmosphere, how was such a 

 condition brought about? 



VII. LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE 



On as sure ground as we know that food nourishes 

 us, and fire warms us, do we not know that the soul 

 is identified with the body, an organic part of it, 

 growing with its growth, decaying with its decay, 

 and dying with its death? Our philosophy or our the- 

 ology may lead us to a different conclusion, but cer- 

 tainly our science cannot. The touchstone of science 

 is proof or verification, but philosophy lives and 

 moves and has its being in the region of the unveri- 

 fiable in the inner world of man's mental life 

 a world certainly as real as the outer world of his 

 physical life, but of another order, and amenable 

 to other laws. 



We may say that the soul lived before the body 

 lived, and will live after the latter is dead, but we 

 cannot affirm it on scientific grounds, that is, on 

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