Life and matter : a criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the universe" / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

Date:
1905
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    There are things which cannot yet be fitted, in as part of a coherent scheme of scientific knowledge—at present they appear like fragments of another order of things ; and if they are to be forced into the scientific framework, like portions of a puzzle- map, before their true place has been dis- covered, a quantity of substantial fact must be disarranged, dislocated, and thrown away. A premature and cheap Monism is therefore worse than none at all.