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molecules may have the liquid instead of the crystalline 
condition. Their mass formations may thus take place in 
the liquid mode, yielding the colloid, which replaces the 
crystal in the aggregations of such complex molecules. 
II. THE FUTURE “ MARTYRDOM OF SCIENCE.” 
By Frank Fernseed. 
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S T is commonly, and perhaps too readily, taken for 
granted that the position of Science and of her fol- 
lowers will be higher and safer in the future than it has 
been in the past. Those influences and organisations which 
have oppressed her are, it is supposed, decaying, whilst 
those which have been her fellow-sufferers, and which have 
applauded her revelations, are rising into power in their 
stead. 
The other day I saw on a posting-bill these strange 
words Christianity at the Bar of Science!” “How?” 
I said, “ are Galileo and Bruno about to sit in judgment 
upon the cardinals, thus reproducing an old error in an 
inverted form ?” But on what authority or on what grounds 
is it assumed that Science will, in days to come, possess 
any jurisdiction, legitimate or illegitimate ? 
In an article which appeared in these pages in March, 
1880, it was shown that the former persecutions of disco- 
verers have sprung not alone from clerical ill-will, and a 
prediction is even hazarded that in future the work once 
carried on by Caccini and Scioppius will be taken up by very 
different hands. In other words, scientific research will be 
denounced and opposed by the leaders of “ advanced 
thought,” theological, — anti-theological rather, — philanthro- 
pic, social, and political ! 
This foreboding may at first sight appear paradoxical, and 
even absurd. Does not the “ advanced thought ” in ques- 
tion loudly proclaim universal toleration, right of private 
judgment, liberty of speech ? Doubtless ; in the days of the 
first French Revolution it did likewise, till all these brave 
words ripened into the utterance “ The Republic has no 
need of chemists,” and till the achievements and the 
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