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in establishing this conclusion the progress of 

 modern investigation is in a direction tending to 

 Materialism. This may be and always has been 

 the tendency of individual minds. There are men 

 who would stare into the very Burning Bush with- 

 out a thought that the ground on which they 

 stand must be Holy Ground. It is not now of 

 wood or stone that men make their Idols, but of 

 their own abstract conceptions. Before these, 

 borrowing for them the attributes of Personality, 

 they bow down and worship. Nothing is more 

 common than to find men who may be trusted 

 thoroughly on the facts of their own Science, who 

 cannot be trusted for a moment on the place which 

 those facts assume in the general system of truth. 

 Philosophy must include Science ; but Science does 

 not necessarily include Philosophy. There are, 

 and there always have been, some special miscon- 

 ceptions connected with the prosecution of phy- 

 sical research. It is, however, on the surface of 

 things, rather than below it, that the suggestions 

 of Materialism lie thickest to the eye. They 

 abound among the commonest facts which obtrude 



themselves on our attention in Nature and in 



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