ABSTRACT
The type of person who would be greatly offended by the thought that there could be too much of science or rather, science in the wrong place. The figure of the Frenchman, Ernest Renan, towers above them in his century, a writer whose importance can scarcely be over-estimated. Upon a foundation of contradictions and disharmonies of a sort, which gives anything but stability to the building, arises the Temple devoted to the cult of Science and analysis. It is of deep symbolic significance that Pilate's question stands at the very commencement of the Christian Era and by biblical tradition was put into the mouth of the representative of a sceptical over-sophistication of a dying world. It is always a sure symptom of decadence when Pyrrhonism holds sway and has no further respect for ultimate truths. It is not as though the possibility of scientific objectivity as such were in doubt nowadays.
