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they may be all co-eternal together and 

 co-equal. Nor are either of these triplets 

 inconsistent with some reasonable view of 

 what may be meant by the Christian 

 Trinity. The total possibility of existence 

 is so vast that no simple formula, nor indeed 

 any form of words, however complex, is 

 likely to be able to sum it up and express 

 its essence to the exclusion of all other 

 modes of expression. It is a pity, therefore, 

 that Professor Haeckel should think it 

 necessary to decry one set of ideas in order 

 to support another set. There is room for 

 all in this large universe room for every- 

 thing, except downright lies and falseness. 



Concerning Truth there is no need to 

 speak : it cannot but be the breath of the 

 nostrils of every genuine scientific man ; but 

 his ideas of truth should be large enough to 

 take into account possibilities far beyond 

 anything of which he is at present sure, and 

 he should be careful to be undogmatic and 

 docile in regions of which at present he 

 has not the key. 



