92 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL 



And again in his letter* to the secretary of tho 

 Victoria Institute giving his reasons for declining 

 to become a member 



" I think men of science as well as other men need to learn 

 from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds arc scientific 

 are bound to study science, that their view of the glory of ( Jod 

 may be as extensive as their being is capable of. Hut I think 

 that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to 

 harmonise his science with his Christianity ought not to be 

 regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, 

 and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp 

 of a society." 



Professor Campbell and Mr. Carnett have given 

 us the evidence of those who were with him in his 

 last clays, as to the strength of his own faith. On his 

 death bed he said that ho had boon occupied in 

 trying to gain truth ; that it is but little of truth that 

 man can acquire, but it is something to know in 

 whom we have believed. 



" Life of J. C. Maxwell," p. 401. 



