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half century, they have been driving that way witli 

 continually accelerated velocity. 



The so-called religious world is given to a strange 

 delusion. It fondly imagines that it possesses the 

 monopoly of serious and constant reflection upon 

 the terrible problems of existence ; and that those 

 who cannot accept its shibboleths are either mere 

 Gallios, caring for none of these things, or 

 libertines desiring to escape from the restraints of 

 morality. It does not appear to have entered the 

 imaginations of these people that, outside their 

 pale and firmly resolved never to enter it, there 

 are thousands of men, certainly not their inferiors 

 in character, capacity, or knowledge of the 

 questions at issue, who estimate those purely 

 spiritual elements of the Christian faith of which 

 the Bishop of Manchester speaks as highly as the 

 Bishop does ; but who will have nothing to do with 

 the Christian Churches, because in their appre- 

 hension and for them, the profession of belief in 

 the miraculous, on the evidence offered, would be 

 simply immoral. 



So far as my experience goes, men of science are 

 neither better nor worse than the rest of the 

 world. Occupation with the endlessly great parts 

 of the universe does not necessarily involve 

 gieatness of character, nor dees microscopic study 

 of the infinitely little always produce humility. 

 We have our full share of original sin; need, 

 greed, and vainglory beset us as they do other 



