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equilibrium"? 1 Has the religion which makes a 

 God of humanity regarded in the abstract, or which 

 evolves a Deity from the universe considered as a 

 whole, rendered men better or happier? These are 

 questions which press for an answer, but which, 

 fortunately, can be answered as readily as they are 

 asked. 



The response to all these questions, collectively 

 and severally, is a peremptory negative. It is the 

 response which true philosophers and true men of 

 science the world over have given all along. For it 

 would be a mistake to imagine that the utterances 

 of Renan, Haeckel, and their followers, have the in- 

 dorsement of the worthier representatives of science, 

 or that true science has ever made the pretensions 

 claimed for it by some of its self-constituted expo- 

 nents and protagonists. There are soi-disant scien- 

 tists and true scientists, as well as there is a sham 

 science and a science deserving the name. 



Bankruptcy of Science. 



It was in speaking of such soi-disant scientists and 

 their unfulfilled promises, of such sham science and 

 its boastful pretensions, that a brilliant member of 

 the French Academy, M. Brunetiere, did not hesi- 

 tate to declare recently that " science had become 

 bankrupt." Science has promised to tell us whence 

 we come, what we are, whither we are going ; but it 



'"Ceux qui s'obstinent a reconnaitre les traces d'une intelli- 

 gence creatrice dans le developpement de Funivers, sont encore 

 dans les liens des vieilles illusions, car 1'harmonie de la nature 

 n'est qu'une resultant, et 1'existence des choses une affaire 

 d'equilibre." Renan, " L'Avenir de la Science." 



