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ing, will, do not follow the reason except at 

 a distance and, in a way, in spite of them- 

 selves. Yet little by little they must yield to 

 the action of reason, for this latter is intangi- 

 ble and irresistibly increases steadily in power, 

 while feeling, in spite of its repugnance, can 

 always be weakened and naturally grows 

 weaker with time. Drops of water falling 

 without ceasing finally wear away the solid 

 rock. 



This solution of the conflict is certainly the 

 one a man of intelligence ought to hope for 

 and the one he ought to work to bring about. 



Besides, adds the scientist, science as she 

 learns more perfectly her own nature and 

 power becomes more sufficient for education 

 and culture. 



In the first place, she teaches better than 

 anyone the worship of truth, and what is more 

 noble, more sure, more just than to consecrate 

 oneself to that sublime religion? To seek for 

 truth — that is not only to realize in oneself, 

 in all its purity, intellectual virtue; it is — by 

 the subordination of material interests to an 

 ideal interest, by the friendship which the 



