42 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
which demands additional proof in defense of the writer’s late 
assertion. 
One would expect to find our spiritual guides to take a little 
more interest in modern researches amid the ruins of Egypt and 
Chaldea, both so closely connected with the history of the Hebrew 
people. They may find it more profitable than the classical tales 
regarding 
““Thim Haythen Goddesses 
Who wore no boddices, 
And cut such capers 
Round the walls of Troy,” 
whose morals certainly were not beyond reproach. 
As some of the city clergymen may not have noticed in the 
Public Library a London Weekly Times of last month (March), I 
take the liberty of calling their attention to a sermon preached at 
St. Paul’s Cathedral by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Bible 
Sunday, and of which the following is an extract: ‘‘ The guardians 
and champions of orthodox belief, as based on Holy Scripture, have 
times without number, on the authority of their own interpretation 
of the Bible, denounced as presumptuous or even blasphemous 
error, the discoveries and aims of science. ‘True science and true 
religion are twin sisters, each studying her own sacred book of God. 
Nothing but disaster can arise from the petulant scorn of the one, 
or from the timidity or the tyrannies of the other. Let there be 
light. And so with the scientific knowledge which has been so 
strangely supposed to be contradictory to the scriptures, rightly 
understood so, too, with every reverent investigation into the history . 
of the sacred volume itself. Let there be light.” 
The essence of the scientific spirit is first—that it is free and 
disinterested ; second—that it knows nothing of tradition or 
authority, but lays down laws for itself, and refuses to be bound by 
any others. Scientific education starts in simple communion with 
nature. The process is at once opposed to and subversive of the 
old order of things. Between a system based on authority and one 
founded on freedom of thought and opinion there can never be 
united action.— Sir Henry Roscoe, F R. S. 
