Excerpt from Problems of Life and Mind, Vol. 2
The Universe is mystic to man, and must ever remain so; for he cannot transcend the limits of his Consciousness, his knowledge being only knowledge of its changes. Minds of deep emotive sensibility are apt to feel pained, even exasperated by scientific explanations which decline the imaginary aid of some incomprehensible outlying agency not expressible in terms of experience. They dread lest research should dissipate their awe by removing the darkness, and thus rob Nature of that mystery which deepens as they gaze. They are only reconciled to the procedures of research on learning what Explanation truly is, namely, the decomposition of the facts of Experience into their components, and the assigning to each its place; so that what is called accounting for a phenomenon is the pictured, or symbolized, representation of what is not, but what under other conditions might he, a presentation to Feeling. Science is seeing with other eyes. It enables us to foresee results which are not obvious to the inferences of ordinary perception, - nay, are often in direct contradiction to such inferences (as when the earth is mentally seen to be revolving round the sun). But this prevision is strictly accordant with all the conditions of vision.
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