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The fear of yielding to personal feeling in his thought about the world became so exaggerated in the scientist that it shut out the pleading and rejected the services of impersonal feeling, which manifests itself through intuition. This is why he came to the denial of mystical doctrine and scorn of mystical experience. But such undue one-sidedness could not last indefinitely. Its end is within sight.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 6 : Science > # 134