202 Scientific Sophisms. 



learn that those aspirations after truth in state- 

 ment, and justice in action, which we reckon 

 among our noblest attributes as men, are ours 

 because they are the essential constituents of 

 the image of Him, who in the beginning created 

 not only the heaven and the earth, but the 

 materials of which heaven and earth consist." l 



A fit pendant to this noble utterance is fur- 

 nished in the words of Professor Pritchard, who, 

 quoting this passage, adds, 



"And this is the true outcome of the deepest, 

 the most exact, and tJu most recent science of our 

 age. A grander utterance has not come from 

 the mind of a philosopher since the days when 

 Newton concluded his Principia by his immor- 

 tal scholium on the majestic Personality of the 

 Creator and Lord of the Universe." 3 



1 " Discourse on Molecules." 



1 Address at the Brighton Congress, October, 1874. 



