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assured will be challenged by no scientific philologist. It would 
be easy to justify them, but time forbids. I close, therefore, with 
some ideas as to the relations of Science and Culture. 
Science is often personified as an aggressive being and even as a 
demon, shoving and pushing all else away and.endeavoring to 
throttle and kill all else, that it alone may live and flourish. A 
falser conception is scarcely possible. This aggressive demon is 
not science, but a man of straw. Yet the disciples of theology and 
the apostles of culture seem to be made alike unhappy in their con- 
templation of the portentous and horrid offspring of their imagin- 
ings, and batter away at the impassive man of straw while com- 
plaining of his aggressions, Science is rather a goddess who is rich 
in attributes and ready to reward her worshippers, but coy in her 
gifts ; she is generous only to those who worship at her shrine in 
sincerity and truth, and who supplement their prayers by continual 
labor and deeds. To such she distributes her gifts much according 
to their deserts. Her worshippers are generally content with their 
several portions, and in her temple enjoy such sweet communion 
and peace of mind that they envy not the lots of those outside ; if 
at all solicitous for any outsiders they are actuated by motives of 
philanthropy and benevolence alone to invite such to share with 
them. . What other possible motive can there be for proselytism? 
They repose in the temple, itself on an eminence above the turbid 
billows of popular boisterousness, and can contemplate without 
alarm the strife of faction and of sects below. The outcries and 
assaults against science are, therefore, without justification, and are 
evidently the outcome of jealousy and rivalry among the worship- 
pers at other shrines; those interests appear to be imperilled, and 
they dread popularity so manifested by the number of votaries 
wending their way in ever-increasing throngs to her temple. 
Such pilgrims, however, are not unthinking followers of aggressive 
and proselytizing apostles, but are attracted by the clear atmos- 
phere of the heights on which the temple is perched and by the gifts- 
which the goddess half conceals and only imperfectly exhibits to 
new disciples. 
Near her portals, there are no runners who clamor to all in view 
to come in and believe as they do or be killed and damned, The 
priests who guard her shrine warn those that would approach to 
come not save they are prepared to cast off their garments of preju- 
dice and to test all things by trained sense, experience, and reason. 
