136 The Higher Usefulness of Science 



man recognizes himself to be a part and which vulgar 

 natural history strives to describe and define accurately 

 and to classify naturally, is of little profit or interest 

 because unreal or at best semi-real, say these biologists. 



We may hope a generation of students of nature will 

 arise after a while, a majority of whom will genuinely 

 believe and act in accordance with their faith, that 

 common sense has a real part in the interpretation of 

 nature. And when such biologists come and succeed in 

 making themselves heard and felt there may be ushered 

 in an era of rule of the best who will be indeed best be- 

 cause they will rule according to the law of the whole 

 and not by the law of some Being above or beneath or 

 somewhere else outside of nature, whether called super- 

 man or the fit, or by some other name. 



It is high time that natural history should "exert its 

 due influence upon the current habits of philoso- 

 phizing." 



