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sonality with both sides present and co-oper- 

 ant in mutual sympathy and appreciation. 

 After him these two sides separated and 

 flowed down time in diverse and often antag- 

 onistic streams. During the last hundred 

 years (say the nineteenth century) Philosophy 

 and Science have been at daggers' points for 

 the most part. At first Philosophy seemed to 

 hold its own (in Schelling, Hegel, and we 

 should add, Oken, the much belabored at pres- 

 ent). Then Science flung its foe to the 

 ground yea down into Inferno itself, as was 

 thought. Still Science has found itself un- 

 able to do without its counterpart, and is 

 becoming more speculative than Philosophy 

 (a fact which has been repeatedly noted in 

 the preceding exposition). The two are 

 really approaching each other, even through 

 mutual execration. 



It would seem, then, that the time is march- 

 ing toward a new Aristotle who will again be 

 metaphysician and physicist in harmonious 

 proportion, who will reunite in himself the 

 two halves of the universe in a new symmet- 

 rical construction. It may well be questioned 

 if Philosophy, in its present form, can ac- 

 complish this great coming act of reconcili- 

 ation; apparently it has evolved to its limit, 

 and is impotent to proceed further with the 

 evolution of thought. A new discipline must 



