CHAPTER III 



SENTIMENTALISTS AND FADDISTS 



" Every action is measured by the depth of the 

 sentiment from which it proceeds. The foundation of 

 culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment." 



Emerson. 



How often, without challenge, in modern 

 writings and speech, is Science elevated above 

 sentiment! For fifty years and more have 

 its worshippers with exclamatory vehemence 

 exhorted the world to bow down in its 

 murky temple wherein 



"An idolon named Night 

 On a black throne reigns upright." 



And who shall deny that perpetual and 

 persistent assertion avails with the thought- 

 less world in entire independence of the truth 

 or falsehood of the thing asserted ? 

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