The more the possible vistas of science are opened up, the more is the need of a general reconstructive philosophy realised, to co-ordinate and explain the vast mass of facts and records coming from all the sciences in one coherent thought-system. The experimental scientist who, until a comparatively recent date, announced his latest discovery to the world with a great blare of trumpets, and drew from it the most far-reaching theoretical conclusions with a confidence as astounding as it was naïve,
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