458 MODERN SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION : 
tion of many of the wisest of the scientific men whose 
influence is looked upon with such alarm by those 
who, in their anxiety for their faith, demonstrate its 
weakness. ; 
Already, as it seems to me, scientists have reached the 
wall of adamant—the inserutable—that surrounds them on 
every side, and, erelong, we may expect to‘see them re- 
turn to that heap of chaff from which the germs of modern 
science were winnowed, with the conviction that there 
were there left buried other germs of other and higher 
truths than those they gleaned; truths without which 
human knowledge must be a dwarfed and deformed 
ng. 
A few illustrations from the many that might be cited 
will suffice to show the materialistic tendency of modern 
science. In “Pure Philosophy,”—as the students of 
Psychology are fond of styling their science, —the names 
alone of Compte, Buckle, Herbert Spencer, Mill, and 
Draper will suggest the more prominent characters of the 
school they may be said to represent. The most con- 
spicuous feature in the “Positive Philosophy” of Compte 
is the effort it exhibits to coordinate the laws of mind 
with those of matter. Spencer is a thorough-going men- 
tal Darwinist, who considers the highest attributes of the 
human mind, the loftiest aspirations of the soul, as only | 
developed instincts, as these were but developed sensa- 
tions. Mill, more guarded, more fully inspired with the 
spirit of the age, —which believes nothing, and is a foe to 
speculation, —leaves the history of our faculties to be 
written, if at all, by others; takes them as they are, but 
reasons of conscience and free-will with an independence 
_ of popular belief that savors more of the material than the 
‘Spiritual school. Buckle wore himself out in a vain chase 
