The Intuitive Element in Metaphysics

IN PHILOSOPHY for a global world the theoretic component should be founded upon the logical relationships discovered, or postulated, in Nature. This means a foundation upon science and scientific method, since it is the primary business of science and its method to investigate such logical elements, if we define science as which is general and systematic, that is, in which specific propositions are all deduced from a few general principles. This logical unity with which science is concerned has been adumbrated intuitively by the mystical philosophers and religious geniuses of all ages. The relation between scientific knowledge and mystical religious feeling, or, to borrow the language of Professor F. S. C. Northrop, the relation between the theoretic and aesthetic components of religion, is described at perhaps the highest level by Albert Einstein in the following passages from his essay Religion and Science

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