. Studies in the history and method of science. for the teleological language which biolo-gists so frequently employ. And by a knowledge of the end, theview of science, to which qua science it cannot too rigidly confineitself, will doubtless be supplemented and enlarged. But, plain and definite though the end of an individual life maybe, the end of the race—of the human or any other race—the endof the universe, are things only to be guessed at, and all we are leftwith is an indefinite series of evolving systems emerging out of aninfinite past and fading into an infinite future. 78 VITALISM In
. Studies in the history and method of science. for the teleological language which biolo-gists so frequently employ. And by a knowledge of the end, theview of science, to which qua science it cannot too rigidly confineitself, will doubtless be supplemented and enlarged. But, plain and definite though the end of an individual life maybe, the end of the race—of the human or any other race—the endof the universe, are things only to be guessed at, and all we are leftwith is an indefinite series of evolving systems emerging out of aninfinite past and fading into an infinite future. 78 VITALISM In the final issue, indeed, the last effect is as delusive an ignisfatuus as the first cause. The philosophy which has rejected onemust divest itself of the other, and seek its end, if anywhere, inthe logical prius of the mind, which, though last in time, is yet firstin thought, since through it alone can that ordered knowledge ofnature which we call science be born and brought to perfection. Irom the Italian translation ofKETHAM, VENICE 1493. Plate XXVII. MUNDINUS(?) LECTURING ON ANATOMY BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE MS. fr. 2030Written in 1314
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