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can never enter, and of results attained the ultimate bearing of 
which on the fundamental problem of the universe they can 
never understand. Also, by reason of the remarkable subdivision 
of the sciences, and the encouragement given to individual research, 
there has arisen outside the crowd of readers an army of amateurs 
who bring to their work a most worthy enthusiasm, and in many 
instances have not only found healthful occupation for an active 
brain, but have added to the store of facts on which more trained 
and powerful minds have based their generalizations. Such persons 
are, in many instances at least, deeply imbued with the Scientific 
Spirit by infection rather than by the fact of having entered far 
into the rigid methods laid down by inductive philosophers, or of 
having squarely faced the great problems involved in existence. 
Those, however, in whom the emotional element is very sub- 
ordinate to the intellectual are, as will be inferred from what I 
have already said, divisible into two main sections. Those, on 
the one hand, who, endowed with well-disciplined powers, wedded 
to definite departments of research, and perfectly understanding 
the correct methods of investigation, see, as they think, in physical 
science the " one thing needful," and insist that, if knowledge is 
to be brought into a coherent unity, everything conceivable must 
be analysed and dealt with on principles of strictly Physical 
Science ; and while fully aware of the logical consequences of such 
a demand, they are quite prepared to rest in the strange feeling of 
finding themselves in the presence only of an everlasting and ubiqui- 
tous succession of purely physical antecedents and consequents : and 
those, on the other hand, of vast knowledge in specific depart- 
ments, who, having pushed their researches along certain lines to the 
utmost point yet attained, and deeply sensible of the vastness of 
the problems of existence, nevertheless modestly refrain from pro- 
pounding any universal theory of knowledge, and calmly await the 
time, if ever it shall come, when, having passed the infancy of 
enquiry, and become more familiar with the subtle and grave 
questions that lie beneath an enlarged experience of positive, 
sensible facts, they shall with clearer vision be able to take a 
survey of the explored realms, and possibly arrive at a philosophy 
of the whole. 
I imagine that it has always been true in human history that 
newly-manifested tendencies have not only drawn around them a 
considerable number and variety of adherents, as just indicated, 
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