balancing between positive science and a philosophical turn. in everything, a critical eye, overturn all and nothing. in everything, a humility, to know that we must try, and try again.

and at the limit, after hearing each piece, find your own voice and go your own way.

'The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. "Yes, I see, dear; it's about halfway between," Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to insure sterility.'

Howards-End, E.M. Forster