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science which follows reality instead of trying 

 to make reality conform to itself — steadily 

 teaches the mind to break away from that 

 tyranny of habit which is nothing but the sur- 

 render of the native liberty of spirit to the law 

 of inertia which is the particular quality of 

 matter. In the effort to proportion means to 

 ends, to recognize the complexity and the par- 

 ticular nature of objects in themselves, she 

 appeals to the spirit of sagacity as well as to 

 the spirit of geometry. She not only develops 

 the power of external observation and logical 

 deduction but she sharpens that sort of judg- 

 ment which discerns the agreement of meth- 

 ods and problems, the meaning and value of 

 results. 



Of course we must reject the contention of 

 certain romanticists, that science ought to be 

 controlled by literature, unless we are pre- 

 pared to accept the cult of matter, figures and 

 force. But, we must recognize, on the other 

 hand, that, if the sciences are to take in the 

 education of mind their due place, they must 

 be taught, not by the dogmatic method of a 

 professor who is nothing but a professor, but. 



