V NOTES OF AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH 



those who have no other leisure, in a knowledge 

 of the phenomena of Nature, and of man's 

 relation to Nature ? 



I should like to see a scientific Sunday-school 

 in every parish, not for the purpose of superseding 

 any existing means of teaching the people the 

 things that are for their good, but side by side with 

 them. I cannot but think that there is room for 

 all of us to work in helping to bridge over the 

 great abyss of ignorance which lies at our feet. 



And if any of the ecclesiastical persons to whom 

 I have referred, object that they find it derogatory 

 to the honour of the God whom they worship, to 

 awaken the minds of the young to the infinite 

 wonder and majesty of the works which they pro- 

 claim His, and to teach them those laws which 

 must needs be His laws, and therefore of all things 

 needful for man to know I can only recommend 

 them to be let blood and put on low diet. There 

 must be something very wrong going on in the 

 instrument of logic if it turns out such conclusions 

 from such premises. 



