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tected were more rare than it is ; and we doubt not that it will 
More liberal b ecome so, in proportion as students of science attain 
education the a more liberal cultivation in other respects. We de- 
precate, 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 
Rivalries of eac h other; while jealousies among those who are 
the mephanica 1 workers for truth in different mines of fact, are as 
an e„ ca . i n j ur i ous 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 tjie ope 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 
example in will endeavour to be sensitively on our guard against 
this rivaky! ° f that which we complain of in others ; being persuaded 
that the interests of truth and knowledge will be 
advanced |}y excluding from the lecture-room all side-long 
sneers at morals and religion, and from the theological chair 
inveptivps 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 
and their Credibility.” / 
