154 FHE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. 
to use all our faculties to learn in what consists true obedience 
to these laws. Since Nature is one, every living race is 
necessary to, and inextricably intertwined with every other, 
and no examination of any force or form of life can be too 
prolonged or too minute, for a perfect knowledge of every part 
is necessary to a proper comprehension of the whole; with- 
out this, we can only see, as in a glass, darkly, and must 
shuffle about with uncertain footsteps. 
I will conclude by reading the words of one of the most 
commanding and most comprehensive intellects our race has 
yet produced—the man described by Pope in his famous an- 
tithesis as ‘‘The greatest, wisest, meanest of mankind’—I 
mean Lord Chancellor Bacon, himself an illustration of the 
law that great excellence in one respect is counterbalanced 
by corresponding inferiority in others, who, in his Essay on 
“The Advancement of Learning,’ wrote thus: ‘‘ Let no man, 
out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or, an ill applied moderation, think or 
maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the 
book of God’s words or in the book of God’s works, Divinity or Philo- 
sophy ; but rather, let men endeavour an endless progress ov proficience 
in both.” 
DASA 
