MODERN SCIENCE: 

 A CRITICISM 



TTcuTi Xoyoj \6yoQ taog avTiKetrai. 



IT is one of the difficulties which meet any- 

 one who suggests that modern science is 

 not wholly satisfactory, that it is immedi- 

 ately assumed that the writer is covertly defending 

 what Ingersoll calls the " rib-story," or that he 

 v/ishes to restore belief in the literal inspiration of 

 the Bible. But, religious controversy apart, and 

 while admitting that Science has done a great work 

 in cleaning away the kitchen-middens of super- 

 stition and opening the path to clearer and saner 

 views of the world, it is possible — and there is 

 already a growing feeling that way — that her 

 positive contributions to our comprehension of 

 the order of the universe have in late times been 

 disappointing, and that even her methods are only 

 of limited applicability. After a glorious burst 

 of perhaps fifty years, amid great acclamations 

 and good hopes that the crafty old universe was 

 going to be caught in her careful net. Science, it 

 must be confessed, now finds herself in almost 



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