LIFE AND SCIENCE 



mechanical or chemical principles, but under its 

 tutelage or inspiration they produce a host of new 

 substances, and a world of new and beautiful and 

 wonderful forms. 



IV 



Bergson says the intellect is characterized by a 

 natural inability to understand life. Certain it is, 

 I think, that science alone cannot grasp its mystery. 

 We must finally appeal to philosophy; we must have 

 recourse to ideal values — to a non-scientific or super- 

 scientific principle. We cannot live intellectually or 

 emotionally upon science alone. Science reveals to 

 us the relations and inter-dependence of things in the 

 physical world and their relations to our physical 

 well-being; philosophy reveals their relations to our 

 mental and spiritual life, their meanings and their 

 ideal values. Poor, indeed, is the man who has no 

 philosophy, no commanding outlook over the tan- 

 gles and contradictions of the world of sense. There 

 is probably some unknown and unknowable factor 

 involved in the genesis of life, but that that factor 

 or principle does not belong to the natural, universal 

 order is unthinkable. Yet to fail to see that what w r e 

 must call intelligence pervades and is active in all or- 

 ganic nature is to be spiritually blind. But to see it 

 as something foreign to or separable from nature is to 

 do violence to our faith in the constancy and suffi- 

 ciency of the natural order. One star differeth from 



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