34 FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. 



of that restraint which the discoveries of physic 

 science have imposed upon mankind. 



Having thus submitted Mr. Mozley's views to tl 

 examination which they challenged at the hands of 

 student of nature, I am unwilling to quit his book witl 

 out expressing my admiration of his genius, and nr 

 respect for his character. Though barely known to hii 

 personally, his recent death affected me as that of a friend. 

 ' With regard to the style of his book, I heartily sul 

 scribe to the description with which the ' Times ' \ 

 up its able and appreciative review. ' It is mark< 

 throughout with the most serious and earnest convic 

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

 asperity or insinuation against opponents ; and this n< 

 from any deficiency of feeling as to the importance 

 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 Beview.' 

 J.T.] 



