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from the last section. The writer's reply to the 

 question of which we are now speaking was a 

 simple " no/' and has been classified as such.] 



The religious creed has had a good effect on 

 freedom of research. 1. "None [i.e. no deter- 

 rent effect] ; rather the contrary." 2. "On the 

 contrary." 3. " Quite the reverse/' 4. " I think 

 none whatever. I have had to overcome some 

 prejudices, but my true religious life has been 

 cognate with my scientific one, and the former 

 has stimulated rather than crippled the latter." 

 5. " Certainly not ! On the contrary, it has had 

 clearly the very best effect." 6. " Not a deterrent 

 effect; but it acted as a guide." 7. "Never 

 deterred ; now acts as a direct stimulant, since 

 it appears to me that the cultivation of a 

 naturally-implanted intellectual tendency is a 

 religious duty. . . . The most pernicious in- 

 fluence to which I was subjected was that 

 arising from J. Stuart Mill. It took me a long 

 time to work through the sensationalist, em- 

 pirical philosophy, and to come out at the 

 other side." 8. " No ; but the scientific sys- 



