Science rebukes certain thoughts by calling them morbid. For example, some religious societies discouraged men more or less from thinkin gabout sex. And in dealing with those whose morbidity has a touch of mania, modern science cares farless for pure logic than a dancing Dervish. Nothing can save him but a blind hunger for normality, like that of a beast. He can only be saved by will or faith.
Every cure is a miraculous cure.
Their counsel is one of intellectual amputation. Doubtless he co uldbe vanquished in mere reason, and the case against him put logically. But it can be put much more precisely in moregeneral and even aesthetic terms. He is without healthy hesitation and healthy complexity. Now, as I explain in the introduction, I have determined in these early chapters to give not so much a diagram of a doctrine as some pictures of a point of view.