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sketching ” which prevails just now on some of the highest 
subjects, where exact truth is most wanted. Does not Dr. 
Tyndall know that the human mind is such that it will at last 
discredit and distrust “ an emotion ” which clashes with what 
it has found to be true? 
29. Our essayist partly explains perhaps his reasons for adopt- 
ing his present style of treating these subjects. He thinks that 
our appeal philosophy is forsaking its ancient metaphysical 
is to reason and channels” — and that (if we may try our hand at 
continuing his metaphor), he may deal with its 
shallows sportively among the flowery meadows. We think he 
is mistaken, We will change his metaphor a little. The battle 
of thought will ultimately rage in those deep places which come 
close up to the walls of science ; and a confident style of 
writing, even when accompanied by the great merits of Dr. 
Tyndall, will not be a match for careful thinking on great 
subjects,— thinking “ right on,” as straight as mathematics, — 
with good natural “ [Barbara Celarent” at hand to help. 
We think, too, it is the part of a just philosophical inquirer 
to represent even those from whom he differs with an equity 
which they themselves will recognize. We wholly refuse the 
antagonism which Dr. Tyndall sometimes affirms, and always 
implies, between men of science, as such, and men of prayer. 
We feel it to be offensive in purely scientific addresses to 
have the statement that the “Lord God formed man of the 
dust” called “ a grand old legend ” (p. 97), or the words “ God 
saw all that he had made, and behold it was very good,” a 
“grand old story” (p. 99), or to have the same term, “grand 
fellow” (p. 74), applied to Kepler, apparently to link his illus- 
trious name with the spirit and tone of Science against Prayer. 
As to this last reference, does not Dr. Tyndall know that Kepler 
was eminently a man of prayer, and was not only an enthusi- 
astic theologian (like Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke), but 
worked out all his sublime deductions as acts of devotion ? — 
Will Dr. Tyndall accept Kepler’s laws as results of prayer ? He 
must : for certainly Brewster says that John Kepler prayed 
for Divine help and guidance in all his special scientific investi- 
gations. If the “ working men of Dundee” had been told of this, 
they might not readily have thought prayer so contemptible. 
30. We cannot help thinking that men of science and men 
of prayer might afford to shake hands together over Keplers 
Rivalries of laws. We speak of those who, like Dr. Tyndall, are 
scfencFsho^id worthy of the name, for as to others, the inferior 
end. spirits of the scientific world, who simply raise a 
chorus of laughter fit the hope and thought that science may one 
