SCIENTIFIC FAITH ONCE MORE 
all around us. Gross matter has its interior in the 
molecule; the molecule has its interior in the atom; 
the atom has its interior in the electron; and the 
electron is matter in its fourth or its ethereal estate. 
We easily conceive of matter in the three states, — 
the solid, the liquid, the gaseous, — because experi- 
ence is our guide; but how are we to figure to our- 
selves matter in the ethereal estate? In other words, 
how are we to grasp the electric constitution of 
matter? 
III 
In Sir Oliver Lodge we have an example of a thor- 
oughly trained and equipped scientific mind which 
yet, to account for things as we find them in this 
world, has to postulate another world of a different 
order — the world of spiritual reality — interpene- 
trating and interacting with the visible and tangible 
world about us. In doing this, Sir Oliver takes an 
extra-scientific step and lays himself open to the 
same criticism that has been visited upon Alfred 
Russel Wallace. 
Our Professor Loeb would account for all our gods 
through physical and chemical changes in matter, 
and would probably look as much askance upon 
Huxley’s “consciousness”’ as belonging to the trin- 
ity of cosmic realities, as upon Sir Oliver Lodge’s 
hierarchy of spirits. Huxley’s coat of mail is his 
agnosticism: he does not know, and sees no way of 
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