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CHAPTER VIII. 



NATURE AND MAN. 



THUS I saw the value there is in the doctrine that 

 Nature is more than it appears to us ; a doctrine care- 

 fully elaborated and established by the arguments of a 

 long succession of thinkers, and yet turned to so little 

 use. It seemed to me like a weapon carefully wrought 

 and keenly tempered, but the edge of which had not 

 been tried : or like the splendid geometry of the 

 Greeks, upon which a large part of modern science is 

 built as its corner stone, but which its authors 

 applied to no practical result. I saw especially how 

 needful it was for the right understanding of scientific 

 truths, and how perfectly it put at rest the strife 

 which science has waged, more or less continuously, 

 with the religion and with the higher emotions of the 

 race. 



