IN THE NOON OF SCIENCE 



With our vast stores of scientific knowledge come 

 the same problems that come with the accumula- 

 tion of worldly wealth — how to acquire the one 

 and not lose sight of the higher spiritual values, or 

 become intellectually hard and proud, and how to 

 obtain the other and not mortgage our souls to the 

 devil; in short, in both cases, bow to gain the whole 

 world and not lose our own souls. It has been done, 

 and can be done. Although Darwin confessed to- 

 ward the end of his life that he had lost his interest 

 in art, in literature, and in music, of which he was 

 once so fond, he never lost his intellectual humility 

 or gentleness and sweetness of soul, or grew weary in 

 the pursuit of truth for its own sake. He had sought 

 to trace the footsteps of the creative energy in ani- 

 mal life with such singleness of purpose and such 

 devotion to the ideal that the lesson of his life teUs 

 for the attitude of mind called religious as well as 

 for the attitude called scientific. His yearning, 

 patient eyes came as near seeing the veil withdrawn 

 from the mystery of the world of animal life as has 

 ever been given to any man to see. 



Huxley, the valiant knight in the evolutionary 

 warfare, was not a whit behind him in the disin- 

 terested pursuit of scientific truth, while he led him 

 in his interest in truths of a more purely subjective 

 and intellectual character. Huxley was often ac- 

 cused of materialism, but he indignantly resented 

 the charge. He was a iscientific idealist, and he 

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