
        from THE COMPLEX VISION OF PHILO St JOHN                    FRIAR10
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             "You can call it an old  argument if  you  want to,"  said  the
        friar.  Or, you  can call it wondering about some aspects of reality
        that are immune to scientific inquiry."
             "Now you're really talking nonsense," Philo said. "No aspect of
        reality is immune to scientific inquiry.  If it seems that way, it's
        only because we haven't learned to sort out all of the variables. Or
        because we haven't devised techniques to measure them."
             "You know," said the friar. "Every age has it superstitions. In
        the middle ages, the superstition  was that the earth was the center
        of the universe.  During the Renaissance and continuing into the pre-
        sent, the superstition is that the earth was given to man to do with
        as he pleased.  During  the nineteenth century, the superstition was 
        that social progress was inevitable.  And today, the superstition is
        just  what  you told me, that science has no theoretical limitations.
        And that science is the study of reality."
             "Well, if science  is  not  the  study of reality, I don't know
        what is."
             "I'm not sure that I know either," said the friar.  "Unless per-
        haps reality is not meant to be studied."
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