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geology of my youth, although these, in their day, 

 claimed and, to my mind, rightly claimed the 

 name of science. If nothing is to be called science 

 but that which is exactly true from beginning to 

 end, I am afraid there is very little science in the 

 world outside mathematics. Among the physical 

 sciences, I do not know that any could claim more 

 than that it is true within certain limits, so narrow 

 that, for the present at any rate, they may be 

 neglected. If such is the case, I do not see where 

 the line is to be drawn between exactly true, 

 partially true, and mainly untrue forms of science. 

 And what I have said about the current theology 

 at the end of my paper [supra pp. 160-163] leaves, 

 I think, no doubt as to the category in which I 

 rank it. For all that, I think it would be not only 

 unjust, but almost impertinent, to refuse the name 

 of science to the " Summa " of St. Thomas or to 

 the " Institutes " of Calvin. 



In conclusion, I confess that my supposed " un- 

 jaded appetite " for the sort of controversy in which 

 it needed not Mr. Gladstone's express declaration 

 to tell us he is far better practised than I am 

 (though probably, without another express de- 

 claration, no one would have suspected that his 

 controversial fires are burning low) is already 

 satiated. 



In " Elysium " we conduct scientific discussions 

 in a different medium, and we are liable to threat- 



