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to have been modified or improved by the addition of the method 

 by working hypotheses, and then modern scientific methods are 

 said to be inductive. With this understanding, it may be said that 

 the deductive methods of metaphysics have been supplanted by the 

 inductive methods of science. It would, perhaps, be better to say 

 that deductive and inductive methods have been superseded by the 

 method of working hypotheses. 



Working hypotheses are the instruments with which scientific 

 men select facts. By them, reason and imagination are conjoined, 

 and all the powers of the mind employed in research. 



Darwin, more than any other man, has taught the use of working 

 hypotheses. Newton and Darwin are the two great lights of 

 science — the Gemini in the heavens of philosophy; stars whose 

 glory is the brightest of all. 



There be good folk in the world who love mythologic and meta- 

 physic philosophy — one or both. In the ears of such the praise 

 of Darwin is not sweet music. Let me beg of such who may be 

 here to consider that we come to-night to praise our dead, and to 

 tell of our love for the man who gave us hope. You and I cannot 

 contend over an open grave, and in my soul I find no cause for 

 angry contention elsewhere. Every man's opinions are honest 

 opinions — his opinions are the children of his own reasoning, and 

 he loves his offspring. 



When I stand before the sacred fire in an Indian village and 

 listen to the red man's philosophy, no anger stirs my blood. I 

 love him as one of my kind. He has a philosophy not unlike that 

 of my forefathers, though widely separated from my own, and I love 

 him as one near akin. 



Among civilized men I find no one who has not a philosophy in 

 part common with my own ; and of those smaller portions of our 

 philosophies which are not alike I see no cause why anger should 

 be kindled between us thereby. They and I are bound together by 

 the same cord of honesty in opinion. 



In Darwin's writings I find no word of reproach. Denunciation 



