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when once you have made them. Knowing this, the scientific man, face to face with a difficulty, does not sit down helplessly ;. he finds out the conditions under which he can bring about a result,, learns how to make the conditions, sure that he can rely on the result.
A LESSON OF THE LAW
This is the great lesson taught by science to the present generation. Religion has taught it for ages, but dogmatically rather than rationally. Science proves that knowledge is the condition of freedom, and that only as man knows can he compel. The scientific man observes sequences; over and over again he performs his testing experiments; he eliminates all that is casual, collateral, irrelevant, and slowly, surely, discovers what constitutes an invariable causative sequence. Once sure
