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than their judgment. But the method of 

 teaching is not the way of creation. The real 

 development of language is not intelligible 

 without making an appeal to the living mind 

 as an essential factor. 



Novs oLv eL7) TO)v apx^iv - ^ Intelligence should 

 be considered a principle, says Aristotle. 

 And the proud declaration of Descartes 

 stands more unassailable than ever: Scientiae 

 omnes nihil aliud sunt quarn humana sapientia 

 [sive bona mens^, quae semper una et eadem 

 manet, quantumvis differentihus subjectis 

 applicata:^ All the different sciences are but 

 human wisdom [or good sense], which always 

 remains the same, though it may be applied 

 to most different subjects. 



The truth is that science herself, this lan- 

 guage par excellence, refers us to that living 

 spirit — to that subjective principle — which 

 she thought to dissolve into its elements and 

 to eliminate without pity. Not only is it true 

 that she was born from thought, but it is also 

 true that she can never preserve her value and 



^Aristotle, Anal, post., s. f. 

 ^Descartes, Reg. ad direct, ing., init. 



