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built up. That science only survives in its purity 

 in the Great White Brotherhood, but its traces 

 may yet be seen in the scriptures and the religions 

 of the world. 



We take up modern science, and pass into a 

 different atmosphere. Now phenomena are to be 

 studied, forms are to occupy our attention. But as 

 we look at modern science we find that it is begin- 

 ning to transcend the study of forms ; we find the 

 efforts of its greatest men are turned to seek unity 

 amid diversity. Do not think that, in speaking of 

 modern science as studying forms, I am indifferent 

 to the mighty achievements that it has made, or 

 that I would say one word in derogation of the 

 ability of the leading men of science, and the price- 

 less value of the work that they are doing for 

 humanity. Their achievements during the present 

 century are achievements that are worthy of the 

 very deepest respect, not only for the "sublime 

 patience of the investigator," of which William 

 Kingdon Clifford so rightly spoke, but also for the 

 self-abnegation with which many of them have 

 given their lives to follow truth, to study in the 

 innermost recesses of the phenomena of nature what 

 secrets she has hidden, what may be underneath 

 the "Veil of Isis." I do not, then, speak a word 

 against modern science, but I point out to you this 



