136 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. 



with the atheist who says there is no God, as with the 

 theist who professes to know the mind of (rod. ' Two 

 things,' said Immanuel Kant, 'fill me with awe: the 

 starry heavens, and the sense of moral responsibility in 

 man.' And in his hours of health and strength and 

 sanity, when the stroke of action has ceased, and the 

 pause of reflection has set in, the scientific investigator 

 finds himself overshadowed by the same awe. Breaking 

 contact with the hampering details of earth, it associates 

 him with a Power which gives fulness and tone to his 

 existence, but which he can neither analyse nor com- 

 prehend. 



