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to stand back and compare swimming with walking and declare that 

 it takes solid earth to support you; because you will find that water 

 will hold you up if you adapt yourself to it by the proper movements. 

 You must take the kingdom of new truth by storm; "you must thrust 

 your intelligence outside of itself by an act of the will" and thus five 

 again in a state that is instinctive and at last truly original in the 

 cosmic sense, and in this manner stand as it were by your own cradle 

 and grasp the creative or genetic principle which lies at the very root 

 of evolution. What is needed is a real genetic theory of knowledge, and 

 not a mere theory of the already known, however plausible. 



What should be the relation between science and philosophy ? 

 What is the province of each ? 



It has been contended that philosophy is an organization of the 

 results of the exact sciences. Physics and chemistry busy themselves 

 with matter; biology and psychology with life. Philosophy differs 

 from these, it has been said, in relating their results to a complete 

 system which passes in review the totality of their products. Science 

 thus deals with facts and the laws of science, while philosophy deals 

 with the larger laws, or principle common to all science. 



But how is it possible for philosophy to accomplish anything by 

 accepting this role? 



Science rejects all that the intellect cannot deal with after its own way. 

 But we have seen that the intellect is not an adequate instrument for dealing 

 with really living, growing, creative things; it deals only with dead and 

 past things and not with things in the making. It imposes upon phil- 

 osophy a purely mechanical scheme of reality, and reduces life to a 

 well ordered mechanism, whereas our deepest experience is not of a 

 dead mechanism but of a creative evolution. Science, of course, 

 touches upon life, and is immensely valuable in giving practical con- 

 trol, but it follows the real curve of life only for a short distance, as a 

 tangent follows a curve. 



It is therefore the peculiar province of philosophy to deal with just 

 those aspects of reality which science rejects, because of its inability to 

 schematize them. And when we ask what it is that mainly occupies 



