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tected were more rare than it is ; and we doubt not that it will 

 More liberal bccouie SO, in proportion as students of science attain 

 education the a morc liberal cultivation in other respects. We de- 

 oniycure. precato, at present, the attitude of suspicion and 

 disquiet, in some who in other respects deserve our gratitude 

 for their labours in the arduous field of physical inquiry. With 

 their love of truth, and fearlessness of investigation, at least in 

 the department they have chosen, we have the most entire 

 sympathy. We only wish for such scientific friends that spirit 

 also which the leading daily journal recently ascribed to a dis- 

 tinguished moral philosopher of our time, that " earnestness of 

 conviction which is without the least asperity or insinuation 

 against opponents, and this, not from any deficiency of feeling 

 as to the importance of the issue, but from a deliberate and 

 resolutely maintained self-control, and from an over-ruling ever- 

 present sense of the duty, on themes like these, of a more than 

 judicial calmness.^' ^ 



4. Rivalries, however, in the same departments of knowledge, 

 are by no means unmixed evils, and not unfrequently correct 



Eivalries of ^^^^ othcr ; whilc jcalousics among those who are 

 t^e mechanical workcrs for truth iu different mines of fact, are as 



n e ica. jnjurious as they are wholly unworthy. The real 

 student of physical science, for instance, is engaged in examin- 

 ing the facts of the outer world, observing their arrangement, 

 ascertaining what seem to be general laws, and defining specific 

 tendencies. The student of moral science, on the other hand, 

 whether as philosopher or theologian, has to do with the facts of 

 the inner sphere of human consciousness, the energies and re- 

 quirements of personality. Collision between those engaged in 

 two such distinct fields must, we should think, be impossible, 

 unless the one or the other were wandering from his proper 

 duty, and mistaking his way. 



5. In calling attention to a recent example of this kind of 

 wandering, very noticeable in the recent popular and justly 



admired writer to whom we began by referring : we 



Noticeable I'l ' j . u -i.- i J • 4. 



example in Will endeavour to be sensitively on our guard against 

 Sis TVflir^. ^^^^ which we complain of in others; being persuaded 

 that the interests of truth and knowledge will be 

 advanced by exclujiing from the lecture-room all side-long 

 sneers at morals and religion, and from the theological chair 

 invectives against rational inquiry and physical investigation. 

 The writer to whom we allude. Dr. Tyndall, has issued a book 

 on which we think it right, in the interests of both truth and 



* The review in the Times of Mozley's Bampton Lectures on " Miracles 

 their Credibility." 



