170 LIFE IN NATURE. 



For I perceived that while on the one hand we 

 possess instinctive feelings which bind us consciously 

 to nature as it truly is, on the other hand science is 

 ever bringing more clearly into our consciousness 

 what nature is to our apprehension, which falls short 

 of this; it is continually bringing the phenomenal 

 (or apparent) into clearer light, and forcing upon us 

 thereby the contrast between that, and those feelings 

 of ours which go beyond it. There could not fail to 

 be such a result from the prosecution of the task 

 which science sets herself. Instinctive feelings of 

 ours, true, more or less perfectly, to nature as it is 

 (as, for example, the feeling that there is life in it) , 

 are attached by us to the merely phenomenal, and 

 this is done without perception of the discord so long 

 as we remain ignorant. But science, showing us 

 the phenomena more and more accurately, bringing 

 out clearly what the seeming order of nature is, 

 necessarily seems to oppose and deny these feelings. 



Our heart, in a word, asserts the true; science 

 reveals to us the apparent. This sums up and solves 

 the long-standing controversy between them; it is 

 strange if it do not make the parties to it the best of 



