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rated them. That the other half was not there 

 was of little moment. It was in themselves. It 

 ought to be there ; therefore it must be there. And 

 it is quite true; it is there. Philosophy, like Poetry, 

 is prophetic : " The sense of the whole," it says, 

 "comes first." ^ 



But science could not accept the alternative. 

 It had looked, and it was not there; from its 

 standpoint the only refuge was Agnosticism — 

 there were no facts. Till the facts arrived, there- 

 fore, philosophy was powerless to relieve her ally. 

 Science looked to Nature to put in her own ends, 

 and not to philosophy to put them in for her. 

 Philosophy might interpret them after they were 

 there, but it must have something to start from ; 

 and all that science had supplied her with mean- 

 time was the fact of the Struggle for Life. Working 

 from the standpoint of the larger Nature, Human 

 Nature itself, philosophy could put in other ends ; 

 but there appeared no solid backing for these in 

 facts, and science refused to be satisfied. The 

 position was a fair one. The danger of philosophy 

 putting in the ends is that she cannot convince 

 everyone that they are the right ones. 



And what is the valid answer? Of course, that 

 Nature has put in her own ends if we would take the 

 * Prof. H. Jones, Browningy p. 28. 



