As Being in the Domain of Logic. 
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of the legislation of reason all this is but a procedure in the in¬ 
terest of a beneficent end, 
Some far off divine event 
To which the whole creation moves. 
The universe is become known to man — a population in the 
midst of universal nature, charged with moral meaning in gov¬ 
ernment, running its eternal history under the ordering of abso¬ 
lute reason — a living cosmos. Such is science, splendid, glori¬ 
ous, the entering, through long ages only achieved, of intelli¬ 
gence upon its birthright; begun in the instincts of childhood, 
continued by youth and manhood, entered upon and prosecuted 
in deeper and more careful mood by men of science, overwatched 
and guarded by sages, the treasure of mankind, God’s lesson to 
His creatures, as guide of life and motive for convoying them to 
high destiny. 
But if this finding of self is science it is no less manifest that 
the whole long and difficult procedure is one entirely within the 
domain of logical principles. You have no guide but reason, 
for reason only can authenticate the witness of your ordinary 
observation. You shall therefore be loyal to the exact identities 
which reason teaches you belong to things, never transcending 
the lines which separate them and put them apart. You shall 
treat them as reason bids you treat them. You shall in your 
thought of all things observe the difference between the contra¬ 
dictories, not calling light darkness and darkness light, but 
letting your yea be yea and your nay be nay; never construct- 
ing your transcript of the earth’s crust with the Protozoic 
beneath the Azoic, of the heavens with the earth as the center 
of the solar system after the manner of Ptolemy, the inverte¬ 
brate as ruminant, war as a pastime for nations to play with, 
sin as a step upward, man a thing of necessitated destiny, the 
cosmos a harmony without an intelligent author. In doing so you 
transcend the law that an absolute reason shall be the guarantee 
of your thinking, save as you have which and in so far as you 
do not have which, science is guessing, of which law logic is 
the science and the prophet. 
2. I ask your attention to those methods which science some¬ 
times esteems , I think mistakenly, as her consummate achieve- 
