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a problem of philosophy. In examining the 

 element of knowledge in all we know, and in 

 unearthing the presuppositions involved, 

 epistemology provides positive research with a 

 criterion by which it can judge its work and 

 determine its relation to the sum of knowledge. 

 Every science leads to epistemological prob- 

 lems, and hence the study of these problems is 

 a way by which we may hope once more to 

 achieve the organization of knowledge in these 

 days. 



Moreover a kind of Platonic Academy 

 adapted to the altered position of science is 

 even yet possible. I mean the restoration and 

 manifold development of living relations 

 among those who are to carry on the future 

 work of the sciences in different fields. This 

 way the Graduate College has marked out as 

 its own — provided it seeks to create such rela- 

 tions among its sons while they are still learn- 

 ers and at the fresh and receptive age in which 

 the fundamental principles of investigation are 

 customarily set on a firm basis for a whole life 

 of scientific activity. 



Still more essential for the present day, 



