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separate act of creative power should 

 rather be termed an "hypothesis" than a 

 " dogma;" but in his reasoning on the 

 subject he appears to make little or no 

 distinction between the two terms. For 

 his mode of procedure appears to be some- 

 what as follows. First he imagines some- 

 thing on the principle of Professor Tyn- 

 dall's " Scientific Use of the Imagination," 

 or rather the imaginative use of science ; 

 then he thinks he sees it ; afterwards that 

 others see it as well as himself. Finally, 

 he considers it proved, and writes it down 

 as a scientific fact, and thus builds up his 

 hypothesis, and dignifies it by the name of 

 DOGMA ; forgetful of the wise words with 

 which the Times (October 3rd, 1876) criti- 

 cised Tyndall's Discourse on the " Scien- 

 tific Use of the Imagination," delivered 

 before the British Association at Liverpool, 

 when the critic described it as " an argu- 

 ment of no common order," in which the 

 professor concluded " with an appeal of 

 unrivalled eloquence to abandon dogmatism 

 for ever, and fairly to bring every hypo- 



