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of an established theory, then scientific prediction, one of 

 the most fascinating exercises for the human intellect, can 

 be indulged in. In these investigations the man of science 

 is above considerations of personal tastes, individual pre- 

 dilections or considerations of race. He is above considera- 

 tions of race, for science is international, in spite of the 

 childish assertion of our enemies that all true science has 

 been, is, and must be German. The true man of science 

 cannot be jealous that his brother has discovered some- 

 thing which he has missed, because he is too happy in the 

 solace of the reflection that a new fact has been born into 

 the common consciousness of mankind. 



The highest science of all flourishes in a very rare atmo- 

 sphere, one not to be lived in without due preliminary accli- 

 matization. It is the realm of the Philosophy of Knowledge. 

 Not merely what facts mean or even what generalizations 

 can be framed upon them, but existence in itself, is what 

 is studied here. This highest of all science examines every- 

 thing that is fundamental in the constitution of things, 

 and it includes the mind of man himself as one of the objects 

 of the most careful study. 



Science of the First order deals with Facts, Science of 

 the Second order with Knowledge, Science of the Third 

 order with Truth. 



The Man of the third order of science — the reverent 

 philosopher — aspires to a far more searching analysis, to a 

 very much more comprehensive view of things than that 

 which merely gives him natural law in the physical world. 

 He is striving towards an ideal in knowledge, towards a form 

 of wisdom which is the result of critical investigations in 

 the realm of the most abstract forms of thought. 



Science of the first order may measure the duration 

 of a phenomenon in terms of seconds, science of the second 

 order may attempt to explain why a phenomenon occupied 

 the duration of seconds and not minutes or hours; but 



