50 ALOIS RIEHL 



obscure thoughts upon reasons, in place of 

 these it points to the faculty whereby it is car- 

 ried away, and calls this intellectual insight/' 

 To-day this faculty is known as intellectual 

 sympathy or intuition. 



The opposition to science assumes another 

 form, and one which has preserved itself from 

 all ostensible bias in a romantic direction. 

 Had Pragmatism only aimed at uniting 

 knowledge with life instead of separating it 

 from life, it must have claimed our recognition. 

 As it was it could not overlook the fact that to 

 know also belongs to the life of the spirit, and 

 if knowledge is not the one and only spiritual 

 value, still it has a value of its own. Truth is 

 no mere adjunct to utility. It is not made true 

 because it is useful. It is not made at all, not 

 yet invented: it is discovered. We must not 

 be misled by the term verification^ which is 

 not meant to imply that truths are made. Its 

 meaning is that truths are made good; and 

 that, not as Pragmatism would have it, by 

 feelings and wishes, but, as natural science 

 shows, by facts which are independent of our 

 liking and of all reference to our interests. In 



