426 THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE. 



arise even in a person of ordinary character. As human 

 knowledge and civilization progress, these characteristic 

 differences tend to develop and multiply themselves rather 

 than decrease. Character grows more evidently many- 

 sided. Two well educated Englishmen are far better dis- 

 tinguished from each other than two common labourers, 

 and these are better distinguished, again, than two 

 Australian aborigines. Thus the complexities of exist- 

 ing phenomena develop themselves more rapidly than 

 scientific method can overtake them. In spite of all the 

 boasted powers of science, we cannot really apply method 

 to those existences, namely, our own minds and characters, 

 which are more important to us than all the stars and 

 nebulae. 



