Truth is sacred because Nature is sacred; Nature is not sacred because truth is; and our supreme duty to truth means neither more nor less than a supreme faith in Nature.

It means that there is a something in the Infinite outside ourselves that corresponds to a certain something within ourselves; that this latter something is the strongest and the highest part of us, and that it can find no rest but in communion with its larger counterpart.

Truth sought for in this way is evidently a distinct thing from the truth of utilitarianism.

It is no false reflection of human happiness in the clouds.

For it is to be sought for none the less, as our positivists decidedly tell us, even though all other happiness should be ruined by it.