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the mystique of the desert 



TO MOST LAYMEN AS WELL AS TO MANY PROFESSIONALS 



the word "science" means "a collection of observable facts 

 about the physical universe." And there are many who 

 profess to believe that beyond such observable facts we 

 should never allow our minds to wander. 



Actually, however, no one ever did stop there. No hu- 

 man being is so completely unspeculative, so totally devoid 

 of imagination, so incapable of drawing general conclu- 

 sions, that he does not go on from observable facts to draw 

 morals, to set up standards of value and to philosophize in 



