Nature is without knowing, whereas man is conscious. It is evident that virtues are inherent in man which are not present in the world of nature. This is provable from every standpoint. On the other hand, it is evident and true, though most astounding, that in man there is present this supernatural force or faculty which discovers the realities of things and which possesses the power of idealization or intellection. It is capable of discovering scientific laws, and science we know is not a tangible reality.
Science exists in the mind of man as an ideal reality.
The mind itself, reason itself, is an ideal reality and not tangible. 15 Strange indeed that after twenty years training in colleges and universities man should reach such a station wherein he will deny the existence of the ideal or that which is not perceptible to the senses. For the cow without hard labor and study is already a philosopher of the superlative degree in the school of nature. Let us go to the cow.