100 KNOWLEDGE AND OPINION. 



not yet arrived at any definite and unanimous 

 agreement. The fact that any question is still un- 

 decided makes us hear a great deal more about it 

 than about the fifty thousand points that are finally 

 fixed. But that is no reason for charging men of 

 science with inconsistency and dogmatism ; it is 

 merely a reason for waiting to accept either opin- 

 ion until it has stood the test of time. 



