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men towards the men of culture who do not 

 belong to their own class. When we, in such 

 connections, speak of scientific men, we do not 

 mean men of science as such, but those only 

 who avow or manifest their hostility to relig- 

 ion. There is an assumption of superiority, 

 and often a manifestation of contempt. Those 

 who call their logic or their conjectures into 

 question, are stigmatized as narrow-minded, 

 bigots, old women, Bible worshippers, etc. 



Professor Huxley's advice to metaphysicians 

 and theologians is, to let science alone. This is 

 his Irenicum. But do he and his associates let 

 metaphysics and religion alone ? They tell the 

 metaphysician that his vocation is gone ; there 

 is no such thing as mind, and of course no 

 mental laws to be established. Metaphysics 

 are merged into physics. Professor Huxley 

 tells the religious world that there is over- 

 whelming and crushing evidence (scientific 

 evidence, of course) that no event has ever 

 occurred on this earth which was not the effect 

 of natural causes. Hence there have been no 

 miracles, and Christ is not risen. 1 He says that 



1 When Professor Huxley says, as quoted above, that he does 

 not deny the possibility of miracles, he must use the word mir- 

 acle in a sense peculiar to himself. 



