The pattern supplied by scientific know- ing shows that in this one field at least it is possible for ex- perience, in becoming genuinely experimental, to develop its own regulative ideas and standards. Not only this, but in addi- tion the progress of knowledge of nature has become secure and steady only because of this transformation. The conclusion is agood omen for the possibility of achieving in larger, more humane and liberal fields asimilar transformation, so that a philosophy of experience may be empirical without either being false to actual experience or being compelled to explain away the values dearest to the heart of man.