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century, Darwin, Huxley and others. I am too great a respecter 
of both science and the pursuit of science ever to encourage by 
my example anything like dogmatism among scientific men. 
While arraying methods of study in other branches of science to 
combat those employed by the followers of the evolution hypothe- 
sis, I most willingly indorse what Tyndall says concerning it, viz: 
‘I do not think the evolution hypothesis is to be flouted away 
contemptuously ; I do not think it is to be denounced as wicked. 
Fear not the evolution hypothesis! it does not solve, it does not 
profess to solve, the ultimate mystery of the universe. It leaves 
in fact that mystery untouched.” If it be grounded on truth, it 
will survive all attempts to overthrow it; if based on error, it will 
disappear, as many so-called scientific facts have done before. 
Science is a progressive study. It does not dogmatically pro- 
nounce itself as infallible; it is at all times ready to admit what 
has been once rejected, if it return clothed with truthful demon- 
stration which science properly calls for as a passport to admission 
into its domain. 
I would also caution my associates to avoid carefully what may 
be called the pride of modern science ; for so rapid have been the 
discoveries of science during the last century, crowding upon us 
especially during the past twenty-five years, that we are apt to 
become bewildered and dazzled, and cry out in unbounded enthu- 
siasm: Great is the god Science! it revealeth all things to us, 
and we will consecrate our talent and our time to its worship. The 
marvellous discoveries in chemistry, geology, electricity, light, 
etc., have lifted the veil that concealed from us so many of 
ature’s secrets that we are almost baffled in our attempt to 
systematize them. The wonderful organic compounds ; the disin- 
terring of curious records of past ages ; thé obedient and sub- 
missive lightning that carries our messages ; that wonderful light, 
so quiet in its operations, yet so powerful to reveal the chemistry 
of the universe ; and the conservation of force —all these, I say, 
bewilder the mind so that we rev el in building bright air-castles, 
almost losing our mental equilibrium. Of all scientists of the 
present day the chemists perhaps have kept a more stable equilib- 
rium than any other class, starting out with a fixed law to govern 
them in regard to what are considered elements, never in any M- 
ntäñce tolerating the development or transmutation of one element 
of another, however remarkable the analogy they may exhibit 
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