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bar does not hold, for not only is it perfectly under- 

 stood that a barrister does not necessarily state his own 

 opinions, but there exists a strict though unwritten 

 code to protect the public against the abuses to which 

 such a system must be liable. In religion and science 

 no such code exists — the supposition being that these 

 two holy callings are above the necessity for anything 

 of the kind. Science and religion are not as business 

 is ; still, if the public do not wish to be taken in, they 

 must be at some pains to find out whether 'they are in 

 the hands of one who, while pretending to be a judge, 

 is in reality a paid advocate, with no one's interests at 

 heart except his client's, or in those of one who, how- 

 ever warmly he may plead, will say nothing but what 

 springs from mature and genuine conviction. 



The present unsettled and unsatisfactory state of 

 the moral code in this respect is at the bottom of the 

 supposed antagonism between religion and science. 

 These two are not, or never ought to be, antagonistic. 

 They should never want what is spoken of as recon- 

 ciliation, for in reality they are one. Religion is the 

 quintessence of science, and science the raw material 

 of religion ; when people talk about reconciling reli- 

 gion and science they do not mean what they say ; 

 they mean reconciling the statements made by one set 

 of professional men with those made by another set 

 whose interests lie iu the opposite direction — and with 

 no recognised president of the court to keep them 

 within due bounds this is not always easy. 



Mr. Allen says : — 



" At the same time it must be steadily remembered 



