ABSTRACT
Nature seems to satisfy the mind's craving; for, upon investigation, it turns out that identities do in fact underlie apparent diversity. The material universe is pictured by science as composed of a diversity of patterns of a single substance. Sixty or seventy years ago the majority of scientists believed, and the belief often caused them considerable distress, that the product of their special incompetence was identical with reality as a whole. Today this belief has begun to give way, in scientific circles, to a different and obviously truer conception of the relation between science and total experience. The behaviour of the insane is merely sane behaviour, a bit exaggerated and distorted. More serious writers associated political with sexual prejudice and recommended philosophy as a preparation for social reform or revolution. The Victorian passion for respectability was, however, so great that, during the period when they were formulated, neither Positivism nor Darwinism was used as a justification for sexual indulgence.
