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to, the pupils were constructing figures and then demonstrating 

 the questions, making the study simply supplementary to ordinary 

 geometry. There was little invention. Nearly all the construc- 

 tions were noticeable adaptations of what had been drawn for 

 demonstration in the de- 

 ductive study. 



Nor have the advo- 

 cates of industrial train- 

 ing, with but one excep- 

 tion, so far as the writer 

 has been able to learn, 

 availed themselves of 

 this study, which is not 

 tentative, but directly 

 in the line of what they 

 urge. 



Inventional geome- 

 try should be given a 

 place in every school ; 

 and, if it becomes a 

 question of time be- 

 tween that and demon- 

 strative geometry, as- 

 sign the time, in nearly 



every instance, to the former, because it is of far greater prac- 

 tical value, and many times more educative. 



SCIENCE AND ITS ACCUSERS. 



By W. D. LE SUEUE. 



"VTOT many months ago we had in a single number of a lead- 

 -L-^ ing English review — the " Contemporary " — no less than 

 two articles by able writers lamenting the disintegrating action 

 of science on morality and religion. The first of these was from 

 the pen of the eminent Belgian publicist, M. Emile de Laveleye, 

 and was entitled " The Future of Religion" ; the second, con- 

 tributed by Miss Frances Power Cobbe, dealt in a trenchant and 

 aggressive manner with " The Scientific Spirit of the Age." Both 

 writers seem to be strong anti-Darwinians ; but both attack the 

 Darwinian doctrine, not on scientific grounds, but on account of 

 its alleged incompatibility with views and sentiments which they 

 regard as of pre-eminent importance. The only relevant criti- 

 cism, however, that can be directed against a scientific doctrine 

 is one intended to show that it is not what it claims to be — 



