His view was that in this century we and all humanity are on an expedition, that pride requires that all useless questionings should be met with a ‘not yet’, and that life should be conducted on interim principles, though in the consciousness of a destination that will be reached by those who come after us. The truth is that science has developed a conception of hard, sober intellectual strength that makes mankind’s old metaphysical and moral notions simply unendurable, although all it can put in their place is the hope that a day, still distant, will come when a race of intellectual
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