104 Presidential Address 



investigators has even now landed on the 

 treacherous but promising shores of a new 

 continent. 



Yes, and there is more to say than that. 

 The methods of science are not the only 

 way, though they are our way, of being 

 piloted to truth. "Uno itinere non poles t 

 perveniri ad tarn grande secretum." 



Many scientific men still feel in pug- 

 nacious mood towards Theology, because 

 of the exaggerated dogmatism which our 

 predecessors encountered and overcame 

 in the past. They had to struggle for 

 freedom to find truth in their own way; 

 but the struggle was a deplorable neces- 

 sity, and has left some evil effects. And 

 one of them is this lack of sympathy, this 

 occasional hostility, to other more spiri- 

 tual forms of truth. We cannot really 

 and seriously suppose that truth began to 

 arrive on this planet a few centuries ago. 

 The pre-scientific insight of genius 

 of Poets and Prophets and Saints was 

 of supreme value, and the access of those 

 inspired seers to the heart of the universe 

 was often profound. But the camp fol- 



