No. 3.]
SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN PHILOSOPHY.
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So far as we are able to explain the facts by it, pluralism is therefore an eminently satisfactory hypothesis; for, while it avoids the introduction of unknowns, it brings home to us the nature of existence in general in an entirely unique way. We have the assurance that where it is successfully applied, the result will be, not merely to shift the problem back a step, thereby creating a new problem of the same type, but to provide a final explanation an explanation which is capable of fully satisfying such beings as ourselves, in the search for the true nature and meaning of reality.
C. A. Richardson.
St. Bee's,
England.
