Though truly even as purely natural it contains for us still strange surprises. It is, for instance, a world where we are hurled along at the rate of 1100 miles a minute without feeling the movement. A world where little globules around us grow to men and women, without occasioning us surprise, I suppose because we never think about it. A self-contradictory world? On the contrary it is tediously law-abiding and monot- onously self-consistent, it might be thought. Its facts, however opposed some of them may seem, have a perennial habit of ultimately agreeing. Its facts are reconcilable to the degree that if not reconcilable we suspect them of not being facts. What can this reconcilability of natural facts connote? Ob- viously, for one thing, that all Nature is a harmony. Nature as we saw includes man. Then man is of the harmony
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