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they were split open lengthwise in order that 

 the marrow might be exposed. 1 



Let us now follow Bolsche's logical argu- 

 ments as they advance in their triumphal 

 career. 



' If man has once arrived at the conviction that 

 he with his intellectual soul has ascended from the 

 souls of beasts, he grasps also the magnificent idea 

 that everything in the world is determined by 

 natural laws. Universal logic is based upon the 

 universality of these natural laws, and everything 

 depends absolutely upon this logic. If the smallest 

 particle of it is abstracted from the universe, every- 

 thing falls to ruin, not only the firmament of heaven, 

 not only matter with its wild movements, but even 

 our ideals the best things that we possess are 

 shattered, if we take away logic from them. If 

 this ' interior logic ' has once taken possession of a 

 man, it will urge him to enthusiasm for research, in 

 contradistinction to revelation. We need no other 

 revelation than research, and in research into 

 nature lies the divine power. ' Where research work 

 is carried on, God is present, and that is the real 

 sanctuary of mankind' (Vischer). Whether we 

 call this sanctuary nature or God is quite unim- 

 portant the one word is spelt with six letters, the 

 other with three, that is the only difference. 



1 'La Station Pateolithique de Krapina': L'Anthropologie, xvi. p. 13, 

 1905. 



