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Darwin, I had discovered how unsatisfactory the
scientific method is, which accepts the mechanism
of the universe without presupposing a
Mechanician. The weakness of the system
showed itself in the gradual degeneration of
science; it had marked off a boundary line over
which one was not to step. “We,” it said,
“have solved all problems; the world has no more
riddles.” This presumptuous lie had annoyed
me already in 1880, and during the following
fifteen years I occupied myself with a revision
of the natural sciences. In 1884 I doubted the
supposed composition of the atmosphere. The
nitrogen of the air is not identical with the
nitrogen obtained by analysis of a nitrogenous
body. In 1891 I visited the Scientific Institute
in Lund in order to compare the spectrum analyses
of these two sorts of nitrogen whose difference
I had discovered. Do I need to describe
the reception which the learned scientists gave
me? Now in this year, 1895, the discovery of
argon has confirmed my former hypotheses, and
given a fresh impulse to my investigations which
had been interrupted by a foolish marriage. It
is not Science which is bankrupt, only the
antiquated, degenerate science, and Brunetière was
right although he was wrong.
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