LIFE AND SCIENCE 



man life is made up of two spheres, or hemispheres, 

 one of which is the subjective world. There is a 

 world within us also, the world of our memories, 

 thoughts, emotions, aspirations, imaginings, which 

 overarches the world of our practical lives and ma- 

 terial experience, as the sky overarches the earth. 

 It is in the spirit of science that we conquer and use 

 the material world in which we live; it is in the 

 spirit of art and literature, philosophy and religion, 

 that we explore and draw upon the immaterial 

 world of our own hearts and souls. Of course the 

 man of science is also a philosopher — may I not 

 even say he is also a prophet and poet? Not other- 

 wise could he organize his scientific facts and see 

 their due relations, see their drift and the sequence 

 of forces that bind the universe into a whole. As a 

 man of science he traces out the causes of the tides 

 and the seasons, the nature and origin of disease, 

 and a thousand and one other things ; but only as a 

 philosopher can he see the body as a whole and spec- 

 ulate about the mystery of its organization; only as 

 a philosopher can he frame theories and compare 

 values and interpret the phenomena he sees about 

 him. 



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We can only know, in the scientific sense, the 

 physical and chemical phenomena of life; its es- 

 sence, its origin, we can only know as philosophy 



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