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(2) " Science lays bare the natural causes of all pheno- 

 mena "? 



(3) " Knowledge courts the most rigorous investiga- 

 tion." ^ 



(4) " The fabric of science is based on the evidence of 

 the senses, and on inferences which are drawn from 

 them." 3 



(5) " Science remains firmly planted on the im- 

 pregnable ground of experience." * 



(6) " The facts and theories of science receive daily 

 an overwhelming confirmation from general consent, from 

 success in practice, and from common sense." ^ 



(7) " Science is the one thing certain " (L. Stephen).^ 



(8) " Knowledge can only be gained by means of 

 observation, corrected and verified by experiment." " 



" If any such knowledge of the supernatural can be 

 shown to exist it must take rank as scientific truth." 



" The so-called knowledge [of God] must be sub- 

 mitted to the tests of observation and experiment ; if it 

 is knowledge at all it is capable of verification." '^ 



(9) " Reason declares with overwhelming force that 

 everything which cannot be proved by scientific means is 

 incapable of proof" '•' 



(10) "Science is knowledge verified and reduced 

 to system." ^'' 



(11) " Life in its lowest forms involves relations and 

 correspondences with the surrounding world. And what 

 are these but incipient knowledge ? . . . From this we 

 get brain ; and we have thus living illustrations of the fact 

 that reason has proceeded from non-reason." ^^ 



(12) " The moral ideal of Rationalism is truth, and on 



