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But what has been conclusively established is the certainty of scientific knowledge, and that there is nothing unknowable. Our knowledge is not perfect-far from being so ; but there is no limit to our capacity to know. Besides, perfect knowledge is an ideal ncver to be attained, because when there will be nothing more to know, extinction will overtake mankind. Science has burst the bubble of absolute knowledge and eternal truth. Everyday we know more ; conscquently, our knowledge is constantly rectified, cnlarged and amplified. The summum bonum of scientific knowledge is that there is nothing fixed-everything is in a constant Aux. The only thing eternal and immutable is perpetual change, and that this eternal phenomenon of change is governed by mechanical laws inherent in itself. Thus science justifies its name by merging itself into philosophy, and philosophy ceases to be idle and vain speculation to stand out in the fullness of the glory of the science of sciences.
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