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do not some of those believers rank among the best scientific men of the 
day 'i (Cheers.) My own desire as to science is that she should go on with 
enormous and uncontrolled rapidity, rather than go so slowly as she does. Our 
scientific men lag behind too much ; they get a fact and rest upon it, and 
think that with it they can tear down all revealed religion ; until after a time 
they find it no fact at all. (Cheers.) They should not pause so long, they 
should dive to the lowest depths, ascend to the greatest heights, and leave 
nothing untouched nor unexamined ; but they should be sure of their “ facts ” 
before they come forward and proffer to weak and timid minds a “ theory,” 
and so establish an unbelief that may never be uprooted : for there are many 
who hear the statement of a case who never hear its refutation. (Cheers.) 
[The Annual Meeting being concluded, the members, associates, and their 
fiiends assembled in the Museum of the Society of Arts, where refreshments 
were served.] 
