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physict, duo athei,” “of every three physicians, two are 
atheists.” The science of the Middle Ages differed very 
materially from the science of our own day. Is it not 
clear that the same result cannot be produced by causes 
so dissimilar? That materialism and atheism which 
scientists announce as a result, is really the starting point 
of their speculations. Otherwise, how account for the 
fact that physicists are, as a rule, gross materialists now 
as they were forty years ago, although all theories re- 
garding the composition of matter have been radically 
altered since that day? Evidently, the modern scientist is 
not on account of his research and speculation induced to 
proclaim himself as agnostic; quite the reverse, the fact 
that on any system of physics, zoology, psychology, the 
conclusions remain the same, proves that these conclu- 
sions were in the mind before the facts were investigated. 
Unbelief is not a product of scientific and philosophic 
speculation, it is rather their origin and source. There 
is a settled purpose in relation to which the facts are 
classified and interpreted. Not all scientists are as honest 
as Huxley who announces this purpose in the introduction 
of his “Science and Hebrew Tradition:’ ‘These es- 
says are for the most part intended to contribute to the 
process of destroying the infallibility of Scripture.” 
Additional light is received from the observation that 
scientists adhere to their agnostic conclusions even after 
the premises have been found at fault, on which they 
based their conclusions. It is the end and aim of evo- 
lution to demonstrate that all processes of life and the 
history of living organisms may be accounted for without 
the assumption of a personal Creator. Thus the very be- 
ginning of our universe is accounted for (in the nebular 
hypothesis) by the origin of force and motion in matter. 
However, President Lowell, of Harvard, twenty years 
ago said that the nebular hyopthesis was “founded on a 
