CHAPTER VII 



THE IGNORANCE AND ABSURDITY OF THE 

 SCIENTIFIC. 



" The intelligible forms of ancient poets 

 The fair humanities of old religion, 

 The power, the beauty, and the majesty 

 That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain 

 Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring 

 Or chasms or watery depths, all these have 



vanished ; 

 They live no longer in the faith of reason." 



Coleridge. 



IT has long been observed that mathematics 

 tend to narrow the mind, and that an exclusive 

 devotion to Science leads to an ignorance so 

 complete that it precludes a consciousness of 

 its own existence. The ordinary man of the 

 world who possesses the common powers of 

 observation bestowed on us all is aware that 

 the sun gives out heat, and this simple power 

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