THE STABILITY OF TRUTH. 335 
Such knowledge, tested and placed in order, we Call 
science. Science is no longer individual. It is the 
gathered wisdom of the race. Only a part of it can be 
grasped by any one man. Each must enter into the 
work of others. Science is the flower of the altruism of 
the ages, by which nothing that lives “ liveth for itself 
alone.” The recognition of facts and laws is the 
province of science. We only know what lies about us 
from our own experience and that of others, this experi- 
ence of others being translated into terms of our own 
experience and more or less perfectly blended with it. 
Wecan find the meaning of phenomena only from our 
reasoning based on these experiences. All knowledge 
we can attain or hope to attain, in so far as it is knowl- 
edge at all, must be stated in terms of human experi- 
ence. The laws of Nature are not the products of sci- 
ence. They are the human glimpses of that which is 
the “law before all time.” 
Thus human experience is the foundation of all 
knowledge. Even innate ideas, if such 
Human experi- ideas exist, are derived in some way 
ence the basis of ¢4m knowledge possessed by our an- 
human knowl- ‘ z . 
edge. cestors, as innate impulses to action are 
related to ancestral needs for action. 
But is human experience the basis also of belief as 
it is of knowledge? 
This raises the further question, Is “to believe” 
more than “to know”? Shall a sane man extend belief 
in directions where he has no knowledge 
and in lines outside the bounds of his 
power to act? Can Belief soar in space 
not traversable by “organized common sense”? If 
such distinction is made between “ knowing ” and “be- 
lieving,” which of the two has precedence as a guide 
for action? Is belief to be tested by science? Or is 
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Knowledge and 
belief. 
