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elucidating their profoundly impressive facts, so few — one 

 might say none — of them go beyond the facts and discuss 

 their meanings and consequences. Yet it is natural. This 

 regard for objective truths to the exclusion of anything 

 which cannot be demonstrated is in its sphere a fine quality, 

 and is indeed the distinguishing characteristic of modern 

 science. But after all it is not everything. It is the material 

 body of wisdom — the spirit is more elusive. Induction is a 

 different function of the intellect in which our western 

 civilization is deficient as compared with the oriental. 



It still remains for us to assimilate the facts, and to evoke 

 those new dreams and hopes which tomorrow shall be truths 

 and laws. We must infer and reason and think out changes 

 in our concepts of things which we call spiritual and psycho- 

 logical — we must use our deductive powers and imaginations 

 — our emotional aspirations — we must study this new 

 knowledge and try to understand its meaning and its 

 promises ; and above all we must try to understand our- 

 selves — self-realization is the Divine achievement. 



This present effort falls short of what is to be desired, 

 but the absence of better is its excuse. 



R. W. G. 



January, 1923. 



