CHAPTER XII 



SCIENCE AND UGLINESS 



" And grovelling Art and Letters prostrate fall 

 That lordly Science may be all in all." 



ONE of the causes of the idolatry of Science 

 in the modern world is the tendency of man 

 to reverence what he does not understand. 



" Nothing, " said Montaigne, u is so firmly 

 believed as what we least know," and ignor- 

 ance has ever fallen prostrate before what 

 is beyond its comprehension. Madame 

 Blavatsky achieved her success with a gaping 

 public by claiming that she could produce 

 letters precipitated out of space, and all the 

 noble army of thought-readers, professors of 

 spiritualism and levitation, with their astral 

 planes, and giddy elementals, and Mahatmas 

 that live a hundred and fifty years in inaccess- 

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