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Warren. The concluding" part seems indisputable, fixed at 

 the bottom of the Polar Sea, it lies beyond research. Like a 

 Kerry Property, "so well secured, We cannot get at it." 



Old beliefs die hard ; and many of us feel little inclined to 

 accept modern views, which unquestionably differ from ones 

 previously entertained. The churches put forth their cham- 

 pions to war aeainst the heresies of Science in our day, but 

 merely find defeat and retire discomfitted from the field. I 

 may conclude with the following remarks of Professor E. 

 Morse, the retiring: President of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, in 1887 : "Judging by centuries 

 of experience, as attested by unimpeachable historical records, 

 it is safe enough to accept promptly as true any generalization 

 of Science which the Church declares to be false. One real- 

 izes the lamentable but startling truth that without a single 

 exception every theory or hypothesis every discovery or gen- 

 eralization of Science has been bitterly opposed by the 

 Church." 



