The method and conclusions of science have without doubt invaded many cherished beliefs about the things held most dear. The resulting clash constitutes agenuine cultural crisis. But it is acrisis in culture, asocial crisis, historical and temporal in character. It is not aproblem in the adjustment of properties of reality to one another. And yet modern philoso- phy has chosen for the most part to treat it as aquestion of how the realities assumed to be the object of science can have the mathematical and mechanistic properties assigned to them in natural science, while nevertheless the realm of ultimate reality can be characterized by qualities termed ideal and spiritual.