320 THE GROUNDWORK OF SCIENCE

for labouring in that field which constitutes the matter of

science.

The labourer thus being replete with conscious reason

and labouring with tools which the more skilfully he uses

them afford him ever better grounds for confiding in his

reason, which he also recognizes as the basis of all his con-

clusions and convictions, can it likewise be said that reason

is latent and implied also in the very matter of science ?

If the reader will recall to mind and weigh with care the

facts and considerations which have been again and again

brought forward in this book, he will, we venture to think,

be convinced that there is much to be said in support of

such a latent intelligence.

Let him recollect the phenomena of crystallization and

how a crystal's broken angle can be and will be, the needful

conditions being supplied, accurately replaced. Let him

remember how different chemical substances possess their

own special and in different mineral species very different

innate laws, and also the inherent tendencies of chemical

substances to combine in definite proportions. Let him note

well the marvellous processes of individual development

from the earliest condition of the germ upwards, and also

consider how during the whole life of each it bears a relation

both to the past and the future, as does the chrysalis both

to the larval and the imago state of its existence.

Moreover, if the repair of a crystal is wonderful, how much

more so those which take place in animal and even in human*

life. How wonderful is the transition t from vital activities

which are utterly unconscious and actions which are present

to consentience and ultimately can be recognized by reflex

consciousness. Yet, perhaps, above all other wonders is the

wonder of instinct, the significance of which Schelling so

truly appreciated.

* See ante, pp. 125 and 126. t See ante, p. 137.

for labouring in that field which constitutes the matter of

science.

The labourer thus being replete with conscious reason

and labouring with tools which the more skilfully he uses

them afford him ever better grounds for confiding in his

reason, which he also recognizes as the basis of all his con-

clusions and convictions, can it likewise be said that reason

is latent and implied also in the very matter of science ?

If the reader will recall to mind and weigh with care the

facts and considerations which have been again and again

brought forward in this book, he will, we venture to think,

be convinced that there is much to be said in support of

such a latent intelligence.

Let him recollect the phenomena of crystallization and

how a crystal's broken angle can be and will be, the needful

conditions being supplied, accurately replaced. Let him

remember how different chemical substances possess their

own special and in different mineral species very different

innate laws, and also the inherent tendencies of chemical

substances to combine in definite proportions. Let him note

well the marvellous processes of individual development

from the earliest condition of the germ upwards, and also

consider how during the whole life of each it bears a relation

both to the past and the future, as does the chrysalis both

to the larval and the imago state of its existence.

Moreover, if the repair of a crystal is wonderful, how much

more so those which take place in animal and even in human*

life. How wonderful is the transition t from vital activities

which are utterly unconscious and actions which are present

to consentience and ultimately can be recognized by reflex

consciousness. Yet, perhaps, above all other wonders is the

wonder of instinct, the significance of which Schelling so

truly appreciated.

* See ante, pp. 125 and 126. t See ante, p. 137.