An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able…

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfo…

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of cont…

Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But there are natural limitations inherent to the s…

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?