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— and that part of his nature which we call the 

 spiritual, and which fades off into the vast unknown 



— the violet rays, at the other extreme ; nor between 

 either of these and his aesthetic nature, his love of 

 beautiful forms, though in different individuals these 

 different parts will not be equally developed, nor 

 will they be equally active in different races and 

 times. The feud is between true science and false 

 science ; between the conception of an order that is 

 rational and one that is irrational, between modern 

 pathology and Indian " medicine." 



Exact science deals with and can only deal with 

 the objective, the rigid, inexorable world of law. 

 With the subjective, the world within us, the world 

 of personality, whence comes all we call literature, 

 art, religion, philosophy, etc., it cannot deal. Here 

 exact demonstration is not possible ; all is plastic, 

 growing, conflicting, aspiring, indeterminate. The 

 personal element modifies everything. The laws by 

 which insensate bodies act and react upon each other 

 may be determined, but the laws by which persons 

 act and react upon each other are quite another mat- 

 ter. In the subjective world truth is relative, but 

 in the world of science truth is absolute. Chemical 

 elements always combine in the same proportions ; 

 moisture is always precipitated from the air under 

 the same conditions ; the operations of physical na- 

 ture are uniform ; given the same conditions, and 

 the same results always follow. Doubtless the same 

 results always follow the same conditions in the 

 world of mind and personality also, but here the 



