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all things William (4705 words) |
 | The history of science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interest on the other. |
| Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for may be enveloped in a wider order. |
| Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. |
| On The Lookout (October, 1931) (675 words) |
| Science is intrigued, puzzled, and disturbed at being forced to recognize such a Unity under all phenomena. |
| It is barred at present by the subservience of science to the mere details of matter, partly under urge of utilitarianism, partly due to a pettifogging love of small particularities which seems to possess the present scholastic mind. |
| It is barred by the fact that the various discoveries and suspicions of science, when put together in their proper order, enforce a spiritual and metaphysical view of the Universe disastrous in the extreme to all materialistic ideas. |
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