Abstract
The different brances of science and philosophy are all worhty of the closest study. But there seems to be, at this present time, somewhat of pride or conceit connected with scientific utterances. The theologian may be, and not doubt often is, at fault; but so is the professor of science. There are difficulties in seeing a perfect harmony of truths, because an acquaintance with truth, in all its branches, if attainable at all by any one man, is attained by very few men. We accomplish nothing, however, by sneering at one department of study, as metaphysics or theology, and by deifying another, as physical science. The vice of the Positivist is one-sidedness; and the Physicist is sometimes seen to be no other than an one-sided enthusiast. Men either connot take in all the truth, or they have not the opportunity , or inclination, to study it in all its branches. Hence the scientific man is just as one-sided as the theologian, whom he is so fond of lecturing in this age. Dr. Tyndall should have known, when he finished up one of his scientific lectures witha few lines from Carlyle about "thy small nine and thrity Articles," that no theory of the "Universe" was to be found in them at all, and that he was quoting a dream, when a fact would have been more congruous both to his profession and his subject. "Qui, ne tuberibus propriis offendat amicum Postulat, ignoscat verrucis illius."