IN OOEEOBOEATION OF PEOFESSOR HUXLEY 95 



they cannot take the place of knowledge. Instinct 

 and aspiration enlightened by knowledge is the de- 

 sirable order, is it not ? The only thing the scien- 

 tific man assumes is that the scientific method is the 

 only proper one with which to deal with the objec- 

 tive world of fact and experience. If the professor 

 meant to say that some things are to be felt and not 

 known, he is near the truth. The facts of science 

 are to be known ; we may know Kepler's laws ; we 

 can hardly feel them, since they are not personal. 

 But truths of art, of poetry, of religion, are to be 

 felt, whether we know them or not. They come to 

 us by a synthetical, not by an analytical process. 



I have no disposition to overrate our mere know- 

 ing faculties ; I only want to say that what we know 

 we know through them. What we feel or fancy 

 or hope forms no part of our true knowledge, and 

 may come through other avenues. The perception 

 of the beautiful is not a part of our knowledge ; nei- 

 ther is the perception of the moral or the spiritual. 

 These things are from within ; they are subjective 

 and not objective, and not within the range of the 

 scientific faculties. They are real, just as pleasure 

 and pain are real ; they are experiences of the mind. 

 The whole sphere of religion lies here ; the king- 

 dom of heaven is within you, not in some outward 

 relation or condition. 



Neither do I wish to imply that there is any 

 feud between science and true religion, between that 

 part of man's nature which thirsts for exact know- 

 ledge — the red rays of the spectrum, so to speak 



