18 PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES ON 



wonder why these have not been " Greekified," to keep compan 

 with their classical friends. 



The first savage who witnessed the fact that a seed, fallen from 

 a tree, germinated and produced a tree like the one from which it 

 fell, was making science as much as a Dallinger, who follows a 

 monad with his miscroscope, and establishes the fact that, when it 

 meets a wife it conjugates with it, and the progeny develops into 

 the parent form. 



The savage may have mixed up " fetishes " with his facts, but 

 although his theories may have been childish his facts may have 

 been perfectly sound. 



When, however, he learnt how to produce fire, his theory or 

 philosoj)hy had a new start, for whenever he wanted a fire he 

 would use the same wood and the same action to develop it. 

 After having learnt that such a seed will reproduce such a plant, 

 he would carry the seed with him to new localities when he 

 migrated. Thus, science and philosophy have gone hand in hand, 

 aiding each other's development from the beginning of human 

 time. 



At one time philosophy outgrew science, and the imagination 

 was let loose to flounder independently of facts. With Aristotle, 

 however, commenced a new era — the association of science and 

 philosophy ; but philosophy having been discredited, science went 

 ahead, recording facts heedless of philosophy. The two, however 

 cannot be dissociated without detriment to human progress. 

 Science uses the senses to discover facts, while philosophy uses 

 the imagination to discover ichat they mean. Often they are 

 almost one and the same process, for in some minds the discovery 

 of the fact suggests its meaning. 



Someone might say that the difference between science and 

 philosophy is like that between the stem and the leaf, that is, a 

 " difference without a distinction." In other words a difference 

 of words. 



It is a very curious thing that I turned to the " Encyclopoedia 



Brittanica," (9th edition), to see what is said about '<• Science," and 



found it not in the work that is supposed to contain all human 



knowledge ! so, I have had to define it without the aid of our 



*' Great Treasury of Knowledge." 



