ioo Presidential Address 



fied because we are a part of the scheme, a 

 part that has become conscious, a part 

 that realises, dimly at any rate, what it is 

 doing and what it is aiming at. Planning 

 and aiming are therefore not absent from 

 the whole, for we are a part of the whole, 

 and are conscious of them in ourselves. 



Either we are immortal beings or we 

 are not. We may not know our destiny, 

 but we must have a destiny of some sort. 

 Those who make denials are just as likely 

 to be wrong as those who make assertions: 

 in fact, denials are assertions thrown into 

 negative form. Scientific men are looked 

 up to as authorities, and should be care- 

 ful not to mislead. Science may not be 

 able to reveal human destiny, but it cer- 

 tainly should not obscure it. Things are 

 as they are, whether we find them out 

 or not; and if we make rash and false 

 statements, posterity will detect us if 

 posterity ever troubles its head about 

 us. I am one of those who think that the 

 methods of Science are not so limited in 

 their scope as has been thought : that they 

 can be applied much more widely, and that 



