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nate to the professors and enunciators of these truths. And 

 they would claim the right of pointing out to him the 

 method he was to pursue in his work and would decide 

 which of his scientific discoveries were to be acknowledged 

 as facts, and which condemned as fallacies. Science can no 

 more submit to be controlled, than theology can allow her- 

 self to be fretted, and her principles modified by every little 

 alteration in scientific opinion. Intellectual work of every 

 kind must be free, and no real worker can subscribe either 

 to theological or to scientific tests. To think that scientific 

 men should desire power to impose their inferences upon 

 theologians, or should scoff at theology and the theological 

 method, is humiliating ; but that it should be supposed that 

 the attempt to do so could be justified because some former 

 generation of theologians had tyrannised over a former ge- 

 neration of scientific men is nothing less than despicable. 



Happily the interrogators of nature may henceforward 

 pursue their work without fear of being interfered with by 

 religious societies or teachers. I wish it were equally 

 certain that scientific men would never have to suffer in- 

 justice and tyranny at the hands of arbitrary and arrogant 

 representatives of science. It is in writings called scientific 

 that the true spirit of intolerance is occasionally observed 

 to breathe now-a-days. It is not even impossible to point 

 to views entertained by scientific bodies that are neither 

 broad, nor generous, nor liberal ; and scientific individuals 

 and scientific minorities have occasionally suffered injustice 

 at the hands of fellow-workers. 



But while I do not agree in opinion with those who 

 think that our researches should be conducted or directed 

 as if the truth of the idea of design had been proved, I 



