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clence man ” can be traced throughout the centuries, his 
scath haying been more signal when it involved life and lib¬ 
erty than now when his ambition is limited to a swindle 
in dollars, but now his notoriety is gained by advertising in 
the public press. 
The respective attitudes of science and philosophy to relig¬ 
ion (in the popular use of that term, which includes mythol¬ 
ogy and theology) afford an instructive test for their contradis¬ 
tinction. It has been mentioned before that science and 
religion were necessarily in antagonism, but the phrase, now 
trite, in which the word “conflict” is prominent, is both 
more forcible and more descriptive. That religion should 
be aggressive is essential. Religionists believe that their doc¬ 
trines are of supreme importance to all their fellow-beings, 
and, so believing, their paramount duty is to force those 
doctrines upon all. The denunciation against the “ Scribes 
and Pharisees ” was not that they would “ compass sea and 
land to make one proselyte,” but that they did or did not 
do some other things. Such proselytizing would only be 
the aggression of philanthropy. But another reason for the 
activity' of religionists may be supposed to originate in a 
suspicion of insecurity, and that activity strategists would 
term aggressive-defensive. Any imputation that the belief 
in question was false would be a most dangerous as well as 
insulting blow, and such blows should be prevented by 
attack. Hence the horror and hatred associated perforce 
with the respectable words sceptic and heretic and the inno¬ 
cent term miscreant—all converted into obloquy—while 
the word blasphemy, originally but disrespect expressed to 
any of the orthodoxies, has been distorted to mean the crime 
of crimes. 
Science, too, is aggressive, and also, in practice may be 
dogmatic, though not without protest. Many of the special¬ 
ized sciences are in contest with each other, and within 
each of them there are contending schools. As regards the 
scientific professions it is only needed for an illustration to 
whisper the word homeopathy. So, science and religion 
