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she denies the deeper truths of her own profounder 

 mind, and unfortunately her tendency is now towards 

 more rather than less introspection. The more she 

 gives way to this — the more she becomes conscious of 

 knowing — the less she will know. But still her ideal 

 is in grace. 



The so-called man of science, on the other hand, 

 seems now generally inclined to make light of all know- 

 ledge, save of the pioneer character. His ideal is in self- 

 conscious knowledge. Let us have no more Lo, here, 

 with the professor ; he very rarely knows what he says 

 he knows ; no sooner has he misled the world for 

 a sufficient time with a great flourish of trumpets 

 than he is toppled over by one more plausible than 

 himself. He is but medicine-man, augur, priest, in its 

 latest development ; useful it may be, but requiring to 

 be well watched by those who value freedom. Wait 

 till he has become more powerful, and note the vagaries 

 which his conceit of knowledge will indulge in. The 

 Church did not persecute while she was still weak; Of 

 course every system has had, and will have, its heroes, 

 but, as we all very well know, the heroism of the hero 

 is but remotely due to system ; it is due not to argu- 

 ments, nor reasoning, nor to any consciously recognised 

 perceptions, but to those deeper sciences which lie far 

 beyond the reach of self-analysis, and for the study 

 of which there is but one schooling — to have had good 

 forefathers for many generations. 



Above all things, let no unwary reader do me the 

 injustice of believing in me. In that I write at all I 

 am among the damned. If he must believe in any- 



