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all, the happy girl in an environment of faith, and 

 beauty, and love, praying to her Saint, is per- 

 haps wiser and happier than the careworn scientist 

 bowed under a burden of wisdom, amid the ruins 

 of an ancient creed. Perhaps the out-of-door man, 

 brown, robust, and empty-headed, is wiser and 

 happier than the great philosopher " sicklied o'er 

 with the pale cast of thought." What is it all but 

 words, and what are words compared with the 

 sweetness and bitterness of life itself ? Better let 

 a man give all his time to selling groceries if he 

 win thereby the means of winning love, and a 

 home, and children, than give all his time to the 

 problems of life and fail to live. 



For such views there is much to be said ; but 

 they are not necessarily wholly antagonistic to the 

 scientific spirit, and they may live and thrive side 

 by side with the views of science. A man may 

 both admire the constellations with the eyes of a 

 child and with the eyes of an astronomer ; a man 

 may both rest on a chair and enjoy the scientific 

 conception of it as an infinity of infinitesimal solar 

 systems. A man may both believe in inevitable 

 law and yet believe in God. A man may both 

 understand the scientific view of brain-cells and 

 yet have a simple faith in immortality. Moreover, 

 it seems to us that faith, reached over the stormy 

 seas and rugged mountains of philosophy and 



