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their attention to this matter. They may rest assured 

 that from the point of view of science it is an absolute 

 necessity they should do so, otherwise they are open to 

 attack, in that science to them is not a study of the 

 observed phenomena of all nature, but only of that 

 limited field in which are the things they can see, and 

 taste, and feel, and smell. They refuse to recognise the 

 most potent force in the world's history in moulding 

 man's thought and accomplishing his further evolution ; 

 in other words, we are justified in believing them to be 

 partisans, a designation which ought to be unknown in 

 the field of science and unworthy of men who profess to 

 be our guides in regard to the observed phenomena of 

 nature. 



In a criticism of the " Church Missionary Review " 

 (May, 1912) of Bishop D'Arcy's " Christian Ethics and 

 Modern Thought," we get some illuminating ideas on 

 this matter. The editor quotes from an article by 

 Mr. Winston Churchill, the American man of letters, 

 communicated to the " Atlantic Monthly," entitled 

 " Modern Government and Christianity," in which he 

 says : " What I claim is that Christianity is both social 

 and individualistic ; that it is a sublime blending of two 

 anomalistic and antagonistic principles. What shall 

 Nietzsche's superman do with his power ? If he be 

 really a superman he will use it for the benefit of 

 humanity, because that spirit of God, of Christ within 

 his soul, will prevent him using it otherwise, whether 

 he will or no." The editor of the " Churchman," in 

 criticising this article, had understood Mr. Churchill to 

 assert that Christianity is individualistic and not social. 

 Mr. Churchill replies : " Christianity is individualism, 

 yet individualism that freely enters into sacrifices for 

 the common good. Just as it is the essence of Chris- 

 tianity that the submission of our wills to God must be 

 a free admission (for only thus paradoxically do we 



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