xvi . INTRODUCTION 



of those temples, men will be seen kneeling, prostrated, 

 annihilated in the thought of the Infinite." And modern 

 Pantheism has never had a greater disciple, whose life and 

 work set forth the devotion to an ideal that service to 

 humanity is service to God : " Blessed is he who carries within 

 himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it : ideal of art, ideal of 

 science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of 

 great thoughts and great actions ; they all reflect light from the 

 Infinite." 



The future belongs to Science. More and more she will 

 control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them 

 in her crucible and on her balances. In her new mission to 

 humanity she preaches a new gospel. In the nineteenth 

 century renaissance she has had great apostles, Darwin, for 

 example, whose gifts of heart and head were in equal measure, 

 but after re-reading for the third or fourth time the Life of 

 Louis Pasteur, I am of the opinion, expressed recently by the 

 anonymous writer of a beautiful tribute in the Spectator, 

 " that he was the most perfect man who has ever entered the 

 Kingdom of Science." 



WILLIAM OSLEE. 



