146 THE FATAL BIAS. 
“has no attributes’—such as “just,” for instance. The 
Psalmist describes this attitude: “Let us break their bands 
asunder and cast away their cords from us.” 
No man who has grasped the inner motive of all sci- 
entific effort to demolish faith can fail to understand why 
the rabble greets with such jubilant acclaim every new 
attack upon the Biblical narrative. No man who has 
pondered this motive can be ensnared in the net of sci- 
ence falsely so called. He has seen its inwardness, its 
fatal bias, 
Thus a Christian may preserve an attitude of mental 
balance over against science. The Christian believer may 
admire the achievements of science without being carried 
away by the speculations of scientists. Great is the 
progress of modern medicine, so great, that even the 
past ten years have witnessed great advances in treating 
disease. Chemistry has developed greater marvels than 
was ever ascribed to the wizard’s wand by Oriental poets. 
What astounding performances in applied science—the 
Panama Canal, the Hudson Tunnels, the development of 
the automobile and of the airplane, and the perfection of 
the telephone and the moving picture! We may exult in 
all these victories of mind over matter, and yet stoutly 
oppose those theories which would make of the mind 
which created all these marvels merely a development of 
the instincts of the ape. 
It is possible, even, to be a scientist and in no wise _ 
compromise one’s Christian faith and honesty of Christ- 
tian profession. Wherever men have contented them- 
selves with purely scientific research, with investigating 
and tabulating the phenomena of nature and establishing 
the laws of life and motion in the universe, they have 
found no difficulty in retaining a child-like faith. Among 
those scientists of the first rank who, far from being 
forced to the atheistic conclusion, recognized a wonderful 
