Excerpt from The Final Science: Or Spiritual Materialism
"Hear, Nature, hear;
Dear Goddess, hear!" Lear.
By far the most interesting portions of history are the world's crises in thought. To the ordinary reader they may he less striking than political revolutions; but the thinker finds them of transcendent importance, because he sees in them the seeds whence all the variety and beauty which appear on the pages of history have sprung. The results are apparent to all, the causes are hid; but the discovery of these hidden sources of the stream of human events makes history valuable to the student and worthy of the philosopher's attention.
What is true of history applies also to the study of the present. Much as the mind may ordinarily be engrossed by the infinite diversity and ceaseless, feverish activity in social and national life, in its deeper moods it will seek the principles, the underlying thought, the motives and aims, which arc the causes and commentaries of the phenomena.
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