S.'O Life and Love. 



XXIII. 



CONCLUSION. 



IT is the province of science to investigate, to 

 demonstrate, and to declare what are facts, 

 and not only to say what is, but also to declare 

 what has been. Thus are the vast periods of the 

 world unfolded, and thus the past history of life 

 upon the earth. 



Many beholding the methods of science are 

 seized with a fear that in the pursuit of the e.xact 

 truth about our physical world some higher and 

 more important truth will be neglected, or that we 

 must inevitably lose sight of that something which 

 is back of and is the cause of all physical manifes- 

 tations. But so far is it from true that the facts of 

 the physical world are rendering secondary or less 

 important the facts of the inner consciousness, it 

 has rendered them more absolutely necessary to 

 our thought. To draw a line of distinction, one 

 would say that the rise of that great method we 

 call the scientific — that by which we determine 

 facts — has so enlarged and ennobled the great 

 domain of the intellect which we call tJie philo- 

 sophic that we can hardly tell where it begins or 



