34 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. 



of that restraint 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 with- 

 out 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 sub- 

 scribe to the description with which the ' Times ' winds 

 up its able and appreciative review. 'It is marked 

 throughout with the most serious and earnest convic- 

 tion, but is without a single word from first to last of 

 asperity or insinuation against opponents ; and this not 

 from any deficiency of feeling as to the importance of 

 the issue, but from a deliberate and resolutely main- 

 tained 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 Eeply in the 

 seventh volume of the * Contemporary Keview.' 

 J. T.] 



