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law is just which brings upon us the difficulties 

 and opposition we encounter in our modern days. 

 For as science grew strong, she grew strong with 

 the sword in her hands. She fought for every inch 

 of the ground on which she stood, and only so far 

 as she could guard herself was she safe from the 

 flame or from the prison. Hence she searched for 

 everything in nature that could serve as a weapon 

 against the foe that attacked her. Hence she 

 welcomed eagerly everything which seemed to 

 show that materialism was the true philosophy of 

 life. If we go back twenty-five years, to the time 

 when I and some of you were young, we shall find 

 that over western science there hung the shadow 

 of materialism, and that stronger and stronger 

 grew the scientific tendency to u see in matter the 

 promise and the potency of every form of life." 

 You remember those famous words of Professor 

 Tyndall, no materialist in his thought and a 

 religious man in his aspirations, but wellnigh 

 driven by despair to claim fair field for science, 

 and to fling back the claims of religion, because 

 among them was included the right to gag, the 

 refusal to allow thought to be honestly uttered 

 by the thinker. But things are changing more 

 and more ; as religion has been growing more 

 liberal and more rational, science is becoming less 



