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" When we are asked why we study that which we 

 call Nature we stammer and are silent. We feel as 

 the Creator might feel if asked why he had made all 

 these things." Persian poet. 



Non- Resistance of Science : 



" Old errors do not die because they are refuted. 

 They fade out because they are neglected." Holmes. 



Good work constructive. Huxley's parable of the 

 fence. How Darwin, Lyell, Gray, Hooker, treated the 

 fence. How Huxley and Haeckel treated it. 



Huxley devoted his life to teaching the people and 

 to breaking down " Ecclesiasticism." His part in the 

 " warfare of science." Has this brave struggle for 

 scientific freedom made science more free ? Was it 

 undertaken for this purpose, or to gratify a love of 

 fight ? Was the happiness of the fighter in the re- 

 sults, or in the effort? Does science win, or does 

 Huxley, with his splendid literary style and trenchant 

 pen ? 



Futility of controversy. May be good fun, but in- 

 effective in advancing truth. Controversy equalizes 

 opponents. Holmes's remark. We form a ring about 

 a fight and see that both sides have fair play. The 

 question becomes, Which combatant is most skillful ? 

 not, Which is right? In fair controversy neither 

 is right. 



Truth recognizes neither fair play nor courtesy, but 

 smites error wherever seen, as hunters kill rattle- 

 snakes. Does not even show the courtesy of a rattle. 

 Rather destroys error, as sunshine destroys the frost 

 or the mists of morning. 



Logic of persecution. Its failure to recognize that 



