and at the same time do full justice to the legitimate demands
of the religious life. And indeed, may not this perhaps be the
real reason why philosophy (or, more particularly, metaphys-
ics) has so often retraced her steps and made so little progress-
that she has been waiting, without realizing it, for theology
to become an empirical science? When once this has been
accomplished, the way will have been opened, for the first time
in the history of thought, for the making of philosophy at the
same time adequately spiritual in its appreciations and ade-
quately scientific in its method.

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