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FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE. 



the cause of truth. As regards knowledge, physic 

 science is polar. In one sense it knows, or is destin< 

 to know, everything. In another sense it knows n< 

 thing. Science understands much of this intermediat 

 phase of things that we call nature, of which it is the 

 product ; but science knows nothing of the origin 01 

 destiny of nature. Who or what made the sun, am 

 gave his rays their alleged power? Who or what 

 made and bestowed upon the ultimate particles ol 

 matter their wondrous power of varied interaction 

 Science does not know : the mystery, though pushe 

 back, remains unaltered. To many of us who fe 

 that there are more things in heaven and earth thi 

 are dreamt of in the present philosophy of science, but 

 who have been also taught, by baffled efforts, how vaii 

 is the attempt to grapple with the Inscrutable, 

 ultimate frame of mind is that of Groethe : 



Who dares to name His name, 



Or belief in Him proclaim, 



Veiled in mystery as He is, the All-enf older f 



Gleams across the mind His light, 



Feels the lifted soul His might, 



Dare it then deny His reign, the All-upholder? 



