As Being in the Domain of Logic. 
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by which the explorer supports himself as he makes his pilgrim¬ 
age to the mount of vision, the false arch he builds over him 
lest the infirmity of mind in passing beyond shall be too great to 
-allow his unembarrassed progress. 
3. You have always observed, however, that when one wishes 
to animate himself with a view of any portion of the vast domain 
of the universe in its actual living reality he puts aside the blur 
of these genera and classes , by analysis separating them into 
their individual content and constructing the splendid landscape 
of being as it is. In its more deliberate and ordered way this 
individualizing process wherein things are restored to them¬ 
selves is the most ultimate procedure of science, in which it 
takes apart what for the weakness of the time it has provided 
itself with. The last work it is the high office of science to per¬ 
form is thus to break itself against the barriers created by its 
weakness, clearing its eye for the true vision of things as they 
.are and as they lie unfolded in the bosom of Infinite Intelligence. 
That blessed vision in which all things will be cleared into their 
true features and the universe will be itself in the eye of rapt 
intelligence, it is not the destiny of finite mind ever to reach, 
for the finite cannot overtake the infinite. This is the ideal of 
science. But it is the blessedness of man to be ever drawing 
nearer it and enjoying the new and opening sight, the men of 
catholic science, servants of mankind, leading the way. When 
the number of the sciences shall be fully made out and the por¬ 
tion of the universe allotted to each shall be well surveyed, with 
what is now mystery cleared, all in catholic harmony, handing 
in their several contributions to the one whole, toward which 
the heart of all is devoted, in that later age of the world, how 
glad will be the harvest home! 
It is needless to say, however, that all this procedure of sci¬ 
ence in generalization and classification, in determination and in¬ 
dividualization, the ever enduring toil of thought, has its orbit 
in the domain of logic. Its running together of many qualities 
into one quality pregnant of many instances, its running to¬ 
gether of many individuals into one pregnant individual, its 
.shaking apart of one generic quality into its many individual 
instances and of its one generic individual into its many indi- 
