Process and Methodology of Modern Philosophy

Part I: Positivist Philosopher, or Sophist?
Thanks to the Processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is right before their eyes. "Keep pressing home on him the ordinariness of things. Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively make him think about realities he can't touch or see. There have been sad cases amoung the Physicists. If he must dabble in science, keep him on economics and sociology; don't let him get away from that invaluable “real life.” But best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is “the result of modern investigation.” Do remember you are there to fuddle him. From the way some of you young fiends talk, anyone would suppose it was our job to teach!
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