NOTE ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE UNKNOWABLE 247 



Whether the Unknowable or any other Noumenon 

 exists or does not exist, I am quite clear I have no 

 knowledge either way. So with respect to whether 

 there is anything behind Force or not, I am ignorant ; 

 I neither affirm nor deny. The tendency of the 

 human mind to idolatry is so strong that, faute de 

 mieux, it falls down and worships negative abstrac- 

 tions, as much the creation of the mind as the stone 

 idol of the hands. The one object of the Agnostic 

 (in the true sense) is to knock this tendency on the 

 head whenever or wherever it shows itself. Our 

 physical science is full of it. 



