In gravitation there was no single phenomenon that could not be elucidated by consideration of the relative position of the observer; in regard to space and time relativity had apparently. been shown to be true.
Why should the matter stop there? In biology, for example, the explanation of the Victorian scientist that life resulted from the intercommunication of atoms and energy showed a very insufficient conception. As we had revised our standards in measuring space and time, so we must qualify our standards of reference in inter-proting life and the phenomena of the mind. New conceptions were everywhere needed.
"Tf you turn," concluded Lord Haldane, "to Plate, to Aristotle, and Plotinus you will see that from them much is to be learned that is corrective of the narrow views we
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