64< THE CREED OF SCIENCE, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL. 



possible ; with these they begin, and with these end. 

 Here is the final fact, beyond which Science cannot go, 

 finding no firm foothold for the further speculations in 

 which the metaphysicians are wont to indulge. Further 

 inquiry or attempted explanation she prefers to leave to 

 men of this class, who, however, she observes succeed 

 but badly in their attempts to emancipate mind from its 

 constant connection, from birth to death, ^ith pheno- 

 menal matter which connection she notes as the ultimate 

 fact in this department of knowledge. 



3. Such are the universal and essential charac- 

 teristics of our common human nature, as they manifest 

 themselves to modern scientific inquiry. But now we 

 must further observe, by way of supplement, or comment, 

 that while human nature has its universal, and necessary 

 elements which appear in every individual, thereby 

 producing that general sameness which makes it a fit 

 subject for science, there are also the greatest possible 

 differences amongst the human atoms, according as a 

 greater or less degree or a different combination of the 

 common elements enter into the mental and moral com- 

 position of each individual. Humanity is no homogeneous 

 mass. The individuals composing it differ in intellectual, 

 moral, and social qualities, in religious and sesthetic 

 emotions, even more than they do in physical form and 

 features. There is no identity of nature and no general 

 equality amongst men, even confining the attention to 

 the same society, or nation, or class. While the majority 

 are average men, viewing human nature in its totality 

 and from the point of view of science and of psychology, 

 very many fall below, a considerable number rise above 

 this general level line of humanity, and a select few 

 rise to such exceptional and commanding heights that 

 their fellow-men regard them as beings of a different 



