LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 
and provides the dinner; and is rewarded by being told 
that she is a base creature, devoted to low and material 
interests. But in her garret she has fairy visions out of the 
ken of the pair of shrews who are quarreling downstairs. 
She sees the order which pervades the seeming disorder 
of the world; the great drama of evolution, with its full 
share of pity and terror, but also with abundant goodness 
and beauty, unrolls itself before her eyes; and she learns 
in her heart of hearts the lesson, that the foundation of 
morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to 
give up pretending to believe that for which there is no 
evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about 
things beyond the possibilities of knowledge. 
She knows that the safety of morality lies neither in the 
adoption of this or that theological creed, but in a real 
and living belief in that fixed order of nature which sends 
social disorganization upon the track of immorality as 
surely as it sends physical disease after physical tres- 
passes. And of that firm and lively faith it is her high 
mission to be the priestess. 
Although Tyndall and Huxley possessed fine liter- 
ary equipments, making them masters of the art of 
eloquent and effective statement, they were never- 
theless on their guard against any anthropomorphic 
tendencies. They were not unaware of the emotion 
of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, but as 
men of science they could interpret evolution only 
in terms of matter and energy. Most of their writ- 
ings are good literature, not because the authors 
humanize the subject-matter and read themselves 
into Nature’s script, but because they are masters 
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