442 Dr. St. George Mivart on the Implications of Science. [June 5, 



springs from the tree's trunk. The position taken up by such a man 

 would hardly be deemed the expression of an exceptional amount of 

 wisdom. My time has expired, and I may say no more. 



The considerations I have put before you this evening, should 

 they commend themselves to your judgment, will, I think, lead you 

 to admit that if we feel confidence and certainty in any part of any 

 branch of physical science, we thereby implicitly affirm that the 

 human mind can by consciousness and memory know more than 

 phenomena — can know some objective reality — can know its own 

 continuous existence, the validity of inference, and the certainty of 

 universal and necessary truth, as exemplified in the law of contra- 

 diction. In other words, the system of the relativity of knowledge 

 is untrue. Thus, the dignity of that noble, wonderful power, the 

 human intellect, is fully established, and the whole of our reason, 

 from turret to foundation stone, stands firmly and secure. If I 

 have succeeded in bringing this great truth home to one or two of 

 my hearers who before doubted it, I am abundantly repaid for the 

 task I have undertaken. 



[St. G. M.] 



