34 FEAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. 



ble of, as to judging evidence, in this nineteenth cen- 

 tury of the Christian era, and in latitude fifty-two de- 

 grees north. The experience thus gained ought, I 

 imagine, to influence our opinion regarding the testi- 

 mony of people inhabiting a sunnier clime, with a 

 richer imagination, and without a particle of that re- 

 straint which the discoveries of physical science have 

 imposed upon mankind. 



Having thus submitted Mr. Mozley's views to the 

 examination which they challenged at the hands of a 

 student of nature, I am unwilling to quit his book 

 without expressing my admiration of his genius, and 

 my respect for his character. Though barely known 

 to him personally, his recent death affected me as that 

 of a friend. With regard to the style of his book, I 

 heartily subscribe to the description with which the 

 ' Times ' winds up its able and appreciative review. 

 'It is marked throughout with the most serious and 

 earnest conviction, but is without a single word from 

 first to last of asperity or insinuation against oppo- 

 nents; and this not from any deficiency of feeling as to 

 the importance of the issue, but from a deliberate and 

 resolutely maintained self-control, and from an over- 

 ruling, ever-present sense of the duty, on themes like 

 these, of a more than judicial calmness.' 



[To the argument regarding the quantity of the 

 miraculous, introduced at page 17, Mr. Mozley has 

 done me the honour of publishing a Reply in the 

 seventh volume of the ' Contemporary Eeview.' 

 J. T.] 



