IN CORROBORATION OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 97 



conditions are more obscure and more fluctuating, 

 and science cannot grasp them. 



Every original mind may have, and usually does 

 have, a philosophy of its own, a religion of its own, 

 a political creed of its own, literary preferences of 

 its own ; but every mind cannot have a science of 

 its own. The personal element is alien to science. 

 How many systems, of philosophies have there been 

 from Aristotle down to Spencer ? How many times 

 have the old problems been explained ? But one 

 man's science must be another man's science; all 

 science is a whole — a pushing farther and farther 

 of the lines of knowledge into nature. 



The hostility between the scientific and the spir- 

 itual, or the truly religious, may well cease, if, in- 

 deed, there ever has been, or ever can be, real 

 hostility. We are bound to give the reason and the 

 understanding full sway in their own proper fields. 

 In subduing and in utilizing this world, or adjusting 

 ourselves to it, we have no guide but science. Yet 

 science is not the main part of life, notwithstanding 

 all the noise it is making in the world. Science is 

 making a great noise in the world because it is doing 

 a great work. Literature, art, religion, speculation, 

 have had their day ; that is, the highest achieve- 

 ments of which they are capable are undoubtedly of 

 the past. But science is young ; it is now probably 

 only in the heat of its forenoon work. It is a little 

 curious that man's knowing faculties, the first to be 

 appealed to, should be the latest in maturing ; that 

 he should worship so profoundly, admire so justly, 



