CONTENTS 



and philosophy not to take themselves too seri- 

 ously — The human mind has made but the merest 

 beginning toward understanding the universe — 

 The blunder of assertion without knowledge. 



Ill Science Reverent Before Cosmic 



Wonder by Arthur S. Ed ding ton . 41 



Is the unseen world a reality? — Reality an inde- 

 terminate term — The mystic does face the hard 

 facts — Consciousness not primarily a device for re- 

 ceiving sense-impressions — Transcendental outlook 

 universally admitted — J, S. Holland's apotheosis to 

 an Indian night — The mystic sees other than the 

 measuring rod of science — How prized the mo- 

 ments which reveal the poetry of existence — Our 

 philosophy of life stands or falls on this cri- 

 terion — The scientist may venture on mysticism 

 and not feel guilty twinges — But he should feel 

 disturbed could he not sense the mysteries — Our 

 environment cannot be wholly measured with the 

 tools and symbols of science — Let science pause, 



then, before denying to life religion We 



seek perfect truth — Researches into the nature of 

 Deity may mean employing a conception unfolded 

 two thousand years ago — How I enter a room — We 

 must look at the problems of living, four dimension- 

 ally — How is the entropy of the world increas- 

 ing? — With great difficulty does a scientific man 

 pass through a door — Physical machinery alone 

 ■will not conduct us to man in his entirety. . , . 

 A certain belief says a future non-material exist- 

 ence is in store for us — A Heaven in time is more 

 at variance with modern science than a heaven 

 overhead — How can we reconcile theology and 

 science so far as the destinies of the human 

 soul are concerned? — Where draw the boundary 

 line? . . .Thirty years may see another revolu- 

 tion in science, perhaps a reaction. — So the scien- 

 tist does not philosophize: he seeks truth, how-be- 

 it, his ideas seem to zigzag — Progress with the 

 scientist means constant revision — He progresses 

 for himself, not necessarily for outside activities — 

 The thought behind the scientific theory concerns 

 the philosopher rather than the theory — A future 

 revolution may come in the field of research, but 

 it will be like new words set to old music. 



