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to the best of my ability ; and though strongly, 

 and perhaps wisely, warned that I should prob- 

 ably come to grief, I am entirely satisfied with 

 the results of the line of action I have adopted. 

 My career is at an end. I have 



Warmed both hands before the fire of life ; 



and nothing is left me, before I depart, but to 

 help, or at any rate to abstain fi^m hindering, 

 the younger generation of men of science in doing 

 better service to the cause we have at heart than 

 I have been able to render. 



And yet, forsooth, I am supposed to be waiting 

 for the signal of " revolt," which some fiery spirits 

 among these young men are to raise before I dare 

 express my real opinions concerning questions 

 about which we older men had to fight, in the 

 teeth of fierce public opposition and obloquy of 

 something which might almost justify even the 

 grandiloquent epithet of a Reign of Terror 

 before our excellent successors had left school. 



It would appear that the spirit of pseudo- 

 science has impregnated even the imagination of 

 the Duke of Argyll. The scientific imagination 

 always restrains itself within the limits of prob- 

 ability. 



