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the faithful scrutiny their vast importance deserves, 

 finds the doors of libraries and universities closed to his 

 research. He who has seen the relation of man to his 

 brother animals, finds the air filled with the vain chatter 

 of those to whom whatever is natural seems only pro- 

 fane. " Extinguished theologians," Huxley tells us, 

 " lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled 

 snakes beside that of the infant Hercules." 



But this, again, is not the whole story. This fact is 

 only an incident in human development. Not only theo- 

 logians lie strangled about the giant's 



e s rugg e cradle, but learned men of all classes and 

 against learning. . . . . 



conditions. Learning and wisdom are 



not identical ; they are not always on speaking terms. 

 Learning looks backward to the past. The word " learn " 

 involves the existence of some man as teacher. Wis- 

 dom looks forward to the future. In so far as science is 

 genuine, it is of the nature of wisdom. " To come in 

 when it rains " is the beginning of the science of mete- 

 orology. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die," is the 

 practical basis of personal ethics. To be wise is to be 

 ready to act ; but learning in all the ages has con- 

 demned wisdom and despised action. 



It seems to me that the warfare of science is not 

 primarily, as Draper has called it, a conflict with re- 

 ligion, nor even, as President White 

 The struggle in u 1 ■, . , ■.,,,, 



, , . . would have it, a struggle with " dog- 



the human mind. ^^^ " 



matic theology." It is all of these, but 

 it is more than these — a conflict of tendencies in the 

 human mind which has worked itself out into history. 

 The great movements of history in general are written 

 in the human mind before they are worked out on the 

 great stage of the world. When history is enacted, we 

 perform deeds and recite sentences " written for us gen- 

 erations before we were born." '• He hath his exits and 



