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range of play. The wise teacher of Immunity will recognize 

 --ity of n is demand, rather than >: 



it on account of < urdities of form. What 



we should resist, at all ha/.anls, is tin- attempt made in the 

 past, ami m\v repeated, to found upon this elemental 1 

 of man's nature a system wliieh should exercise i 



. over his intellect. I Iiu\e no fear of such a consum- 

 mutiou. Sej, nee hus ulivad\ to some extent leavened the 

 world; it \\ill leaven it more and more. I should look 

 upon the mild light of science breaking in upon the minds 

 of the youth of Ireland, and strengthening gradually to the 

 perfect day, us a surer check to any intellectual or spiritual 

 tvrunny which may threaten this island, than the laws of 

 princes or the swords of emperors. Wo fought and won 

 our battle even in the middle ages: should we doubt the 

 issue of another conflict with our broken foe? 



The impregnable position of science may be described i~~l 

 a few words. We claim, and we shall wrest from theology, \ 

 the entire domain of cosmological theory. All schemes J 

 and systems which thus infringe upon the domain of 

 science must, in so far as they do this, submit to its con- 

 trol, and relinquish all thought of controlling it. Act. 

 otherwise proved always disastrous in the past, and it is 

 simply fatuous to-day. I '. , <-\-\ system which would escape 

 the fate of an organism too rk'id to adjust itself to its 

 environment, must be plastic to the extent that the growth 

 of knowledge demands. When this truth has been 

 thoroughly taken in, rigidity will he n-laxed. exclusiveness 

 diminished, things now deemed essential will be dropped, 

 and elements now rejected will he assimilated. The lifting 

 of the life is the essential point; and as long as dogmati- 

 fanaticism, and intolerance are kept out, various modes of 

 may be employed to raise life to a higher level. 

 itself not imfrc<|nently de: "Life pou 



from an ultra-scientific source of its greatest die- 



have been made under the the stimulus of a non- 

 scientilic ideal. This was the case among the ancients, 



it bus been BO among ourselves. Mayer, Joule, and 

 Coldin-j. vvl> * are associated with the greatest 



modern gen- -n-. w.-i < t bus influenced. \\ith - 



u -mil in- ' . I . e at one place remarks, that "it is ?. 



alv\a\> the ol.j.-rtivrly < ihle that h- 



man IMO-!, i,: ost quickly to the fullest and truest 



