THE SUMMIT OF THE YEARS 



but it is what physical science sees in the fact. And 

 it is this side of Hfe alone that science can deal with. 

 Of the major part of our lives — of all our subjec- 

 tive experiences, our religious and aesthetic emo- 

 tions, in fact the whole world of the ideal and the 

 supersensuous — nothing can be known or ex- 

 plained in terms of exact science or mathematics. 



To our higher sensibilities science is brutal, un- 

 human, unimaginative. It reveals to us an imper- 

 sonal, mechanical world, where our hopes, our fears, 

 our affections, in short our anthropomorphism, 

 had created a personal world. Science has no fer- 

 vor, no color, no dreams, no illusions, no weakness, 

 no affections, no antagonisms, no temperament; it 

 is not puffed up, thinketh no evil, and goes its way 

 though all our gods totter and fall as it passes. 



Science gives cold and colorless names to things. 

 We are emotional as well as intellectual beings, 

 but science appeals, in the first instance, to our in- 

 tellects and not to our emotions. Where our reli- 

 gious emotions see the hand of God, science sees 

 the sequence of efficient causes ; where we fear and 

 tremble, science is curious and inquiring. 



As emotional and spiritual beings we cannot live 

 by science alone. We can build our houses, run our 

 farms, sail our ships, by the facts and methods of 

 science, but as social, moral, religious, sesthetic 

 beings, we require what science cannot give us. 

 Our inner subjective lives are beyond its sphere. 

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