First and Last Things

frequently verified propositions of science and the more arbitrary and infrequently verified propositions of belief, and made clear the spontaneous and

s a chaotic assembly, that any part might be destroyed without affecting any other part. I do not choose to argue against that. If you choose to say that, I am no more disposed to argue with you than if you choose to wear a mitre in Fleet Street or drink a

eel-smashed frog in the road and the fly drowning in the milk are important and correlated with me. What the scheme as a whole is I do not know; with my limited mind I cannot know. There I become a Mystic. I use the word scheme because it is the best word available, but I strain it in using it. I do not wish t

ificance of things I call the Act of Faith. It is my fundamental religious conf