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...still more difficult contradiction. Knowledge itself is still unexplained. "Naturalscience," he says, " must ever regard knowledge as the product of irrational...last resort it knows no others. It must always regard know1904.] Musings without Method : ledge as rational, or else science itself disappears." He is a...

...will the picture of the universe; reduce its infinite variety to the modes of a single space filling ether; retrace its history to the birth of existing...knowledge as rational, or else science itself disappears." The consideration of the growth of our knowledge, however, brings us into touch with mental science....

...of beliefs. One thing at least will remain, of which this long-drawn sequence of causes and efl'ects gives no satisfying explanation ; and that is knowledge...ever regard knowledge as the product of irrational condition;!, for in the last resort it knows no others. It must always regard knowledge as rational,...

...remain, of which this long-drawn sequence of causes and effects gives no Interpretation of Nature 93 satisfying explanation; and that is knowledge itself....knowledge as rational, or else science itself disappears. The consideration of the growth of our knowledge, however, brings us into touch with mental science....

...in any general scheme of thought which is built out of materials provided by natural science alone. Natural science must ever regard knowledge as the...conditions, for in the last resort it knows no others. The more imposing seems 'the scheme of what we know, the more difficult it is to discover by what ultimate...

...perform, I say, all this, and though you may indeed have attained to science [physical], in no wise will you have attained to a self-sufficing system...extracting from experience beliefs which experience itself contradicts, we are confronted with the difficulty of harmonizing the pedigree of our beliefs...

...physiological arrangements which condition reason in its endeavours to turn experience to account. 273. Extend the boundaries of knowledge as you may ; draw...contradicts, we are confronted with the difficulty of harmonising the pedigree of our beliefs with their title to authority. The more successful we are in...

...satisfying explanation, and that is knowledge itself. Natural science must always regard knowledge ;is the product of irrational conditions, for in the last resort it knows no other. It must always regard knowledge as rational or else science itself disappears. In addition therefore...