GREAT QUESTIONS IN LITTLE 
them have contrivances to secure cross-fertilization, 
why some seeds have hooks, others wings, and 
others springs. But all these “whys” are involved 
in the “hows” of the plants’ getting on in the world. 
Why the child is afraid in the dark, and why the 
infant has such a strong grip in its hands, have good 
and sufficient reasons in the past history of the race. 
If we were to ask why the moon has no atmosphere, 
what we really want to know is, How happens it 
that the moon has no atmosphere, how was such a 
condition brought about? 
VII. LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE 
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On as sure ground as we know that food nourishes 
us, and fire warms us, do we not know that the soul 
is identified with the body, an organic part of it, 
growing with its growth, decaying with its decay, 
and dying with its death? Our philosophy or our the- 
ology may lead us to a different conclusion, but cer- 
tainly our science cannot. The touchstone of science 
is proof or verification, but philosophy lives and 
moves and has its being in the region of the unveri- 
fiable — in the inner world of man’s mental life — 
a world certainly as real as the outer world of his 
physical life, but of another order, and amenable 
to other laws. 
We may say that the soul lived before the body 
lived, and will live after the latter is dead, but we 
cannot affirm it on scientific grounds, that is, on 
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