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chology). Now the scientist (like every mor- 

 tal) lias in his head a bag full of such cate- 

 gories, some of which have been picked up 

 by himself, others he has inherited. But he 

 keeps it carefully tied fast in his unconscious 

 world, showing a kind of terror of it, lest, if 

 he once open it, a Pandora box of ills or in- 

 deed of demons would fly out and eat him up. 

 One of the categories, in fact, the main one, 

 of Biology today, is the Beginning here the 

 Beginning of Life. But the difficulty with 

 such Beginning is, that it is already the Be- 

 gun; when seen in its minutest form under 

 the microscope, it must have had an ante- 

 cedent source or cause, it must have been be- 

 fore, and so it is not the Beginning. Such 

 elusive duplicity lurks in this category when 

 sought as an object of the senses, which is the 

 scientific object. If the Beginning thus turns 

 out the Begun, the mind, in intense pursuit 

 of the former, must get back of the latter and 

 find its source in something still smaller or 

 more remote. So scientific research bears 

 the impress of an infinitely regressive series, 

 with an ever diminishing line of forms in pur- 

 suit of the Inscrutable. But always the dissi- 

 dence will be secretly felt or recognized open- 

 ly: the Scrutable is not the Inscrutable, the 

 Seen (of Sense) persists in being distinct 

 from Unseen (given by Mind) ; or, to use 



