28/46 No, no; nothing can come of these metaphysical speculations. The whole philosophy is not worth psychological treatment. We are no further to-day than the old Greeks, whose knowledge led to the formula, 'Know thyself.' We can hope to know ourselves some day, to know what goes on in our brains. I hardly believe, however, that science will ever arrive at it." "The study of natural science has brought me to the same conclusion," said Wilhelm. "We know nothing to-day of the nature of phenomena--we knew nothing yesterday, and we shall know nothing to-morrow. |