70 Presidential Address 



Biologists exclude Mind and Design. 



Psychologists may ignore human origin 

 and human destiny. 



Folk-lore students and comparative 

 Mythologists need not trouble about 

 what modicum of truth there may be 

 in the legends which they* are collecting 

 and systematising. 



And Microscopists may ignore the 

 stars. 



Yet none of these ignored things should 

 be denied. 



Denial is no more infallible than asser- 

 tion. There are cheap and easy kinds 

 of scepticism, just as there are cheap 

 and easy kinds of dogmatism; in fact 

 scepticism can become viciously dog- 

 matic, and science has to be as much on 

 its guard against personal predilection in 

 the negative as in the positive direction. 

 An attitude of universal denial may be 

 very superficial. 



To doubt everything or to believe everything 

 are two equally convenient solutions; both dis- 

 pense with the' necessity of reflection. 



