Even the mere sensuous joy of living in health will grow duller 146

Nor will culture be of the least avail without the supernatural
moral element 148

Nor will the devotion to truth for its own sake, which is the last
refuge of the positivists when in despair 149

For this last has no meaning whatever, except as a form of
concrete theism 152

The reverence for Nature is but another form of the devotion to
truth, and its only possible meaning is equally theistic 157

Thus all the higher resources of positivism fail together 161

And the highest positive value of life would be something less
than its present value 161


CHAPTER VII.

THE SUPERSTITION OF POSITIVISM.


From what we have just seen, the visionary character of the
positivist conception of progress becomes evident 163

Its object is far more plainly an illusion than the Christian