290 MODERN MYSTICISM AND MODERN SCIENCE. 



like those of dogmatic faith. Based upon evidence, the creeds 

 and pretensions of science are bound to adopt modifications 

 according to the lights by evidence disclosed. 



Errors of science hold their empire on a precarious tenure: 

 the wilder they are, by so much more frail the holding. They 

 have come under the obligation to abdicate the very instant 

 experiment has shown them to be errors. It matters nothing 

 by whom inaugurated, or with the memory of what great 

 name associated. Experiment, in matters of science, is all in 

 all. Authority has no weight, save in so far as it may be 

 accepted as guaranteeing the accuracy of experiment. 



Errors of mysticism, once accepted, tend to grow stronger 

 and stronger by time. Errors of science ever tend to wither 

 under the sunshine of experience, and, withering, pass away. 

 Such is the difference between Modern Mysticism and Mo- 

 dern Science. 



