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Blaisdell—The Methods of Science , 
one to one and another to another they go apart in companies 
to the several fields the divine spirit within them calls to make 
truer ingathering from for themselves and the age — interpreters 
for the ownership of future ages of the world’s truer being, a 
priesthood of far more genuine anointing, if they are true to 
their calling, than youth, though youth in later mood 
“ Still is nature’s priest.” 
How is it possible that when the universe, whose make seems 
so orderly as to woo man as a lover to acquaint himself with 
her nobler beauty and lead him to explore the several depart¬ 
ments of a system which gives so many intimations of order, it 
should not come into his mind, as insight deepens, that there is 
a vital synthesis of these departments with which he has become 
acquainted, until at length it breaks upon him that the universe 
is one universe. Even as when, ascending mountains in boy¬ 
hood by different paths and encountering different toilsome 
shoulders on our way, which disclosed the broken volume, the 
shoulders, from which we looked from one to another and from 
above and from below, made us know that if further heights were 
mastered a summit was waiting for us, and underneath it as its 
blessed domain lay all the kingdoms of the world and the glory 
of them. And so chiefs in the ministry of science, out on cam¬ 
paign to aid in gathering into the mind’s ownership out of the 
fields of all science the universe as one, have our honor. Owner¬ 
ship, in the mind’s store, of the cosmos is the ever-receding but 
always beckoning goal of dreams of mind, to which the race of 
mankind, even though only by supernatural redemption fully 
reaching it while it is our blessedness always to be seeking, is 
crowding as pilgrims to a common shrine. 
1. Inquiring now concerning the relation of logic to this 
procedure of science, I find its first office in the insistence it 
makes that science must ground all its findings in an Ultimate 
Reason which orders the universe as one. For after all I have 
given but a one-sided account of the way in which the conclu¬ 
sion comes to us that amid the multitude of sciences they all 
find their synthesis in one that comprehends them. Not alto¬ 
gether because by examining the lower structures of the uni¬ 
verse we find a converging trend upward do we infer that we- 
