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runs down. This is the extraordinarily interesting con- 

 clusion to which Dr Millikan's researches have led him. 

 They have led him even farther. They have strengthened 

 his conviction that there is something much greater than 

 ' mechanism ' behind the universe. To quote again from 

 his writings : 



Science is sometimes charged with inducing a materialistic 

 philosophy. But . . . the physicist has had the bottom knocked 

 out of his generalizations so completely that he has learned with 

 Job the folly of " multiplying words without knowledge," as did 

 all who once asserted that the universe was to be interpreted 

 in terms of hard, sound, soulless atoms and their motions. . . . 

 The mechanistic is bankrupt. 



In brief, Dr Millikan believes that Science will strengthen 

 faith in an unseen power, and not run counter to the 

 religious impulse of the human spirit. 



