ard's work, aiid all tlie bfforta since which seek to lossea 

 the penal, and increase the remedial . But these remedial 

 efforts need to add to the huma.nitariaii spirit a wide and 

 detailed laiowledge of the h'story of each criminal, aaid of 

 the best methods of treating. This is being secured, by the 

 students of criminology. 



(c) Still further, by the modern method of reaching 

 the truth there haiS come to us a sense of the relia.bility of 

 our world. It is our friend, not our enemy > The more we 

 know of it the surer we are that it is for us and not against 

 us, and that to fall in with its wajns is for our highest good. 

 Acquaintance with our v/orld has frightened away the 

 ghosts, and delivered us from the fear of witches, which 

 were the terror of the world till the dawn of the day of 

 science. Even his Satanic Majesty himself, as the clever 

 writer in the University Magazine, to whom I have refer- 

 red, tells us, is standing idle over his smouldering fire. No 

 doubt scientific truth has revealed to us myriads of real 

 foes in the shape of bacteria, but it has shown how to get 

 rid of them by setting them at eating each other up. In 

 many other respects it has taught us that what we took to 

 be an enemy is a friend. The lightning before the days of 

 science was locked on as a bolt from aai angry Grod. Now, 

 knowing the truth about it, we find that it is a means of 

 adding immeasuraWy to- the necessities, the elegancies, and 

 the humanities of life. And the ocean which one© divided 

 peoples now unites them in social fellowship and commer- 

 cial exchange. Long ago the seer believed that the wOrld 

 was "given to the children of men," and that they were to 

 isubdue it and rule over it." But modem science has got 

 beyond mere belief. It knows. It kno^\■6 that nature is a 

 strong and steady partner in life if we treat it as a partner 

 should be treated. Othei-wise bcM'are ! But science is 

 teaching us the true and kindly way of ruling nature. What, 

 our alliance with it has done is a man- el ; what it w'ill do 

 no tongue can tell or dreamer dream. Science has thus 

 brought to ujs a sense of security in our alliance with nature. 



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