Pure  anachronism !  says  the  survival-theory ;  —  anach-
ronism for  which  deanthropomorphization  of  the  ima&fi-
nation  is  the  remedy  required.  The  less  we  mix  ^e
private  with  the  cosmic,  the  more  we  dweU  in  universal
and  impersonal  terms,  the  truer  heirs  of  Science  we
become.
In  spite  of  the  appeal  which  this  impersonality  of  the
scientific  attitude  makes  to  a  certain  magnanimity  of  tem-
per, I  believe  it  to  be  shallow,  and  I  can  now  state  my
reason  in  comparatively  few  words.  That  reason  is  that,
so  long  as  we  deal  with  the  cosmic  and  the  general,  we
deal  only  with  the  symbols  of  reality,  but  as  soon  a^  we
deal  with  private  and  personal  phenomena  as  such,  we
deal  with  realities  in  the  completest  sense  of  the  term.
I  think  I  can  easily  make  clear  what  I  mean  by  these
words.
